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war movie

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the company fool

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"But what do I know? Nothing. I'm a pair of boots with a rifle."

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life will have its way

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so i watched 1917

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never letting go of the fact that baumer was just built! different!

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im the only one who’s on crack here…  anyway, who dosent love ghosts amiright?

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German “Company Fool” helmet, World War I. Given to the individual who did the dumbest stunts of the day.

from Phoebus Gallery Auctions

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Otto Dix. Der Krieg (The War). 1929-32.

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a hand that held yours

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People in the background from 1917

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watched 1917 again and realized how much i missed my background character who dies instantly

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@bobbole’s amazing “You Don’t Remember the Somme?” art reminded me of Jeremy Deller’s art “We’re Here Because We’re Here” which I actually had the privilege of stumbling across in person when I was in Manchester in July 2016.

It’s Remembrance Weekend here so I thought I’d go down memory lane a little... (none of the photos are mine btw)

The ‘art’ included about 1,600 male volunteers, all dressed in the uniforms worn by the British army in the First World War. Each man represented a named individual who had been killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1st July 1916). When approached by the public, the men would hand out a card bearing the name, battalion and, often, the age of the man they represented. In Deller’s words, these cards were “like small tombstones”.

Every so often, the men would sing “We’re Here Because We’re Here” which was put to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.

I still get chills just remembering.

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it’s the 6th of april! time to fall down the stairs, pass out, and wake up to the beginning of night window

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some valentines to send to that special lance corporal in your life ❤️

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Another meme by yours truly