re: #340 Holidays are Family Fun Time

In wars past, didn’t the a lot of soldiers die of illness or exposure? We don’t see that anymore.

Well, in the Vietnam war, exposure wasn’t much of a risk, and by then, we had pretty good medical care for illness. In WW2, an enormous number of German soldiers died of exposure on the Eastern Front, and in Korea, a considerable number of Chinese died of exposure. Whole regiments were found dead by Marines fighting their way out of the Chosen Reservoir pocket.