Comments on: 26-year-old World War I Victim http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:00:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Morz http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892318 Morz Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:25:06 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892318 Seriously tho, being laid up in a hospital for X # of weeks/months... I can't believe she hasn't picked up a book and read for a few hours. Or Wiki'd WW2. Or watched a damn movie. Just astonished, is all. I'm surprised she didn't learn anything about it in school? Thought the two world wars would've been an important part of modern Belgium history Seriously tho, being laid up in a hospital for X # of weeks/months… I can’t believe she hasn’t picked up a book and read for a few hours. Or Wiki’d WW2. Or watched a damn movie. Just astonished, is all.

I’m surprised she didn’t learn anything about it in school? Thought the two world wars would’ve been an important part of modern Belgium history

]]> By: rosekat http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892275 rosekat Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:59:05 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892275 Seriously tho, being laid up in a hospital for X # of weeks/months... I can't believe she hasn't picked up a book and read for a few hours. Or Wiki'd WW2. Or watched a damn movie. Just astonished, is all. Seriously tho, being laid up in a hospital for X # of weeks/months… I can’t believe she hasn’t picked up a book and read for a few hours. Or Wiki’d WW2. Or watched a damn movie. Just astonished, is all.

]]> By: Matt http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892221 Matt Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:17 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892221 No, I made a typo and wrote veterans instead of victim. No, I made a typo and wrote veterans instead of victim.

]]> By: Graystone2000 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892192 Graystone2000 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:05:58 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892192 http://www.amazon.com/Aftermath-Remnants-Landmines-Warfare-Devastating/dp/067975153X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258747515&sr=8-1 This is common all over the world. France employers deminers to this day clearing WWI munitions... http://www.amazon.com/Aftermath-Remnants-Landmines-Warfare-Devastating  /dp/067975153X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258747515&sr=8-1

This is common all over the world. France employers deminers to this day clearing WWI munitions…

]]> By: D.D. http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892190 D.D. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02:25 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892190 I don't imagine the person who tossed it in the fire recognized it as a bomb. Who knows what it looked like by then. (75 years later) I don’t imagine the person who tossed it in the fire recognized it as a bomb. Who knows what it looked like by then. (75 years later)

]]> By: OddNumber http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892183 OddNumber Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:57:06 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892183 I find the designation as a war "victim" interesting. Certainly the munition that injured her was left over from the war, but she would not have been injured if some knucklehead hadn't thrown it in the fire (the fuze didn't work during the war and likely would not have detonated decades later if not for the heat from the fire). If someone stabbed me with a civil war bayonet then I would hardly consider myself a war victim. Not quite a fair comparison to a live munition being found, but I think you get my point. BTW - I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of her injuries. I simply find the designation interesting. I find the designation as a war “victim” interesting. Certainly the munition that injured her was left over from the war, but she would not have been injured if some knucklehead hadn’t thrown it in the fire (the fuze didn’t work during the war and likely would not have detonated decades later if not for the heat from the fire). If someone stabbed me with a civil war bayonet then I would hardly consider myself a war victim. Not quite a fair comparison to a live munition being found, but I think you get my point.

BTW – I’m not trying to downplay the seriousness of her injuries. I simply find the designation interesting.

]]> By: Babycakes http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892180 Babycakes Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:33:48 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892180 didn't it state she walked away from the pit of fire and at the distance is where her leg was bombed off? I don't think she was near the fire when the mine went off. my only question is, where were the adults? I thought it said something about a school trip? it is weird, but who knows what actually happened. didn’t it state she walked away from the pit of fire and at the distance is where her leg was bombed off? I don’t think she was near the fire when the mine went off. my only question is, where were the adults? I thought it said something about a school trip? it is weird, but who knows what actually happened.

]]> By: Marnethunder63b10 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892176 Marnethunder63b10 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:02:41 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892176 oh sorry... I was intoxicated when I wrote stepped....on it...uhm...yeah we played spin the bottle with the bomb... could it be that a new class of War Victims are emerging? Imagine if all the world war II victims demand money from the Allied "invaders" for their handicap? why stop there, there is the Korean Conflict, Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, Panama, Bosnia, Iraq......hmmmmm oh sorry… I was intoxicated when I wrote stepped….on it…uhm…yeah we played spin the bottle with the bomb…

could it be that a new class of War Victims are emerging?

Imagine if all the world war II victims demand money from the Allied “invaders” for their handicap? why stop there, there is the Korean Conflict, Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, Panama, Bosnia, Iraq……hmmmmm

]]> By: Marnethunder63b10 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892175 Marnethunder63b10 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:58:13 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892175 Here is the key missing information.... She stepped on a bomb left from WWI http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-26yearold-victim-of-the-first-world-war-1824135.html Brandon, contact the nearest US confederate VA and see if you can get the benefits...ROFL..... I feel ya. Here is the key missing information….

She stepped on a bomb left from WWI

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-26yearold-victim-of -the-first-world-war-1824135.html

Brandon, contact the nearest US confederate VA and see if you can get the benefits…ROFL…..

I feel ya.

]]> By: Johnny Cat http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892171 Johnny Cat Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:52:19 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892171 I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the concept of "inadvertently throwing a bomb on a bonfire." I'll just assume alcohol played a major role. I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around the concept of “inadvertently throwing a bomb on a bonfire.” I’ll just assume alcohol played a major role.

]]> By: Brandon http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892170 Brandon Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:49:20 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892170 I cut my hand on a Civil War bayonet as a kid, does that make me a Civil War vet? I cut my hand on a Civil War bayonet as a kid, does that make me a Civil War vet?

]]> By: pwscott http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892169 pwscott Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:46:44 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892169 I thought my being the great-grandson of an American Civil War veteran was strange. I don't see a problem with her receiving benefits. She has suffered a lot and if the government is willing to find a way to help it's fine. :) I thought my being the great-grandson of an American Civil War veteran was strange. I don’t see a problem with her receiving benefits. She has suffered a lot and if the government is willing to find a way to help it’s fine. :)

]]> By: JamesM http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892168 JamesM Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:45:11 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892168 "Matt November 20th, 2009 at 12:33 pm I don't quite understand. How can she be a war victim of a war the ended decades before she was even born? I would not classify civilians stepping on land mines today that were left from Vietnam War as war veterans. Maybe I'm missing something?" What you're missing is proper word usage on your part. She's a war VICTIM. You're comparing it to Vietnam land mines that affected people war VETERANS. Quite a different meaning to both words. She's someone who lost a leg directly because of a bomb that was dropped in the area during World War I. Not quite as dilute as, say, anyone else claiming to be a war victim because their grandfather was killed before they ever knew him. “Matt
November 20th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

I don’t quite understand. How can she be a war victim of a war the ended decades before she was even born? I would not classify civilians stepping on land mines today that were left from Vietnam War as war veterans. Maybe I’m missing something?”

What you’re missing is proper word usage on your part.

She’s a war VICTIM. You’re comparing it to Vietnam land mines that affected people war VETERANS. Quite a different meaning to both words.

She’s someone who lost a leg directly because of a bomb that was dropped in the area during World War I.

Not quite as dilute as, say, anyone else claiming to be a war victim because their grandfather was killed before they ever knew him.

]]> By: Matt http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892164 Matt Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:26 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892164 I don't quite understand. How can she be a war victim of a war the ended decades before she was even born? I would not classify civilians stepping on land mines today that were left from Vietnam War as war veterans. Maybe I'm missing something? I don’t quite understand. How can she be a war victim of a war the ended decades before she was even born? I would not classify civilians stepping on land mines today that were left from Vietnam War as war veterans. Maybe I’m missing something?

]]> By: Skipweasel http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/comment-page-1/#comment-1892163 Skipweasel Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:40 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/?p=27645#comment-1892163 Currently has no interest, might be more apt. She may well change as she gets older - most of us do. Currently has no interest, might be more apt. She may well change as she gets older – most of us do.

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