https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/trump-rename-veterans-day-victory-day-for-world-war-i-00323118

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    Weren't America barely involved in WW1? What is he even talking about? They were something like 2% of the total deaths, only joining a year before the war ended. 116k deaths. For reference, over 880k British troops died, and Britains population was under half that of America's.

    ... just looking it up some more, of the 116k American troop deaths, 64k died from diseases and other non battle related incidents...

    Also why is the photographers name Anna Moneymaker

    • Moss [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Anna Moneymaker sounds like a fake name that a Japanese game would give to an American

    • newacctidk [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      and WW1 was the first war in which mass casualties came from combat more than disease......but we entered at the perfect time to ship thousands of men across the sea with the fucking plague. They had to dump bodies off at sea constantly

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Weren't America barely involved in WW1? What is he even talking about?

      wdym, the USA has been the heroic savior for every war it has ever fought in, according to itself