This photo was titled Wounded Soldier. Sometimes a title doesn't really capture a piece of art or diagram - but this really says it all.
Taken during World War, this indellibly changes the way I conceive of caualties in war. Previously, I thought of war as that of all major injuries or no injuries at all. Either, you got blown up or had a major gun shot wound. We don't really ever think of the toes stubbed whilst fighting for freedom. Our hearts are too romantic for that. But this changes everything. This guy looks like, instead of fighting an enemy with major fire-power, he took on an army of fierce but tiny-fisted monkeys who proceeded to beat the shit out of him. And absolutely no disrespect to the man in the picture. He is probably happy that he fought against the Kaiser so some lazy ingrate heathen could sit at a computer and type a blog about him when he should be working. And isn't that what freedom is all about?
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