Friday, March 20, 2009

Doughboy


This picture is a "Great War" soldier with his sweatheart, maybe home on leave before heading off to France. The Great War is of course what they called it before WW II came along and now most of us call it WWI
The USA did it's best to stay out of both wars, almost kind of hard to believe that we tried so hard to mind our own business at those times. England in both instances wanted us badly to get involved which of course we finally did. My grandfather was a vetern of World War One, wounded by a chunk of German Artillery I believe before he ever got to the trenches. Probably a good thing as it turned out. He has passed on naturally now and when he was here I had no interest, missing out on the chance to ask him about how it was. He did leave a short diary talking about his trip overseas and some on the way into France but most of what he wrote about was food or the lack of it. Apparently rations were not quite what they are today.

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