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 Posted: Fri Jan 12th, 2007 06:32 pm
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 There's numerous reports of soldiers being attacked by hogs while laying there wounded. In addition, this "3rd army" were often present near hospitals feeding on the discarded amputated limbs. (Kind of makes you wish that you shouldn't have had that extra piece of Jimmy Dean's sausage this morning). In terms of period photos of the dead, look closely, for a number of them have their jackets unbottoned - many a wounded individual would look to see where the wound was knowing if it was an abdominal one, there was little hope for them. Also, jackets could be open from the postmortem bloating which occurred. Again as previously stated, what's the goal of war - to kill the other person, to me nothing chivalrous about that.

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