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God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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Yup that was my understanding as well. Not sure why I'm being downvoted, it was a genuine question lol

People are positively petrified of anything that even uses the same words as politically incorrect speech.

I wonder how well this approach is going to survive the current pandemic?

I mean, is it me, or the amount of posts calling to get someone cancelled subsided?

Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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do you have a copy?

I have, but it is old Dutch. Don’t know if that is of help... I am still going through the archives for older mentions.

Facinating. There's a lot of Dutch people here. Some might want to translate

Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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Question, about this part of the letter: "I have four day nurses and five night nurses (female) a ward-master, and four orderlies". Does anyone know why it was important to point out they were female? Were army nurses typically male? Anyways, I'm reading about the 1918 flu a lot lately and came upon parts of this text multiple times. I'm still not sure if it's making me more or less paranoid about Covid-19, but it's…

Is he referring to the ward-master? Which maybe is more often male?

Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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Yup that was my understanding as well. Not sure why I'm being downvoted, it was a genuine question lol

People are positively petrified of anything that even uses the same words as politically incorrect speech.

Explains the “playing the straight man” story recently in another thread.

Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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So, going beyond the depressing, I think one good thing that will come out of all this since this situation isn't experienced in any of our lifetimes (including our elders) we have to reach back to history to find comparisons. Maybe this will spark a curiosity in history!

There's a number of really great history channels on YouTube; I particularly like "The Armchair Historian".

Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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post #21

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People are positively petrified of anything that even uses the same words as politically incorrect speech.

I wonder how well this approach is going to survive the current pandemic? I mean, is it me, or the amount of posts calling to get someone cancelled subsided?

Are you kidding me? Look at the current hash tags on twitter. Miserable people never stop.

Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People are positively petrified of anything that even uses the same words as politically incorrect speech.

I wonder how well this approach is going to survive the current pandemic? I mean, is it me, or the amount of posts calling to get someone cancelled subsided?

The canary I'm watching is the whole "Chinese" or "Wuhan" vs. "COVID" virus naming issue.

I think it is very clearly not the right time to point fingers. But when this is all past us, a post-mortem and finger pointing is probably warranted. I don't think we need to resort to name calling, but I'm curious to see how much people bend over backwards to absolve China of responsibility.

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