re: #152 Decatur Deb

Went through a bunch of Italian WWI ossuaries in my 40s. There’s no way to maintain hip ironic detachment.

Saw a memorial at St Cyr once upon a time. It listed the graduates of the academy that had fallen for France in various wars. Two lines shocked me to my core:

The Class of 1914
The Class of 1915

WWI was far more devastating to France than most Americans realize.