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Im so glad this stuff is getting captured Once these folks leave its all gone I mean, your entire life including <the stupid time periods> being online has its own issues, but being able to look back over your life at say 50 is going to be neat for folks Seeing actual quotes decades later. etc

When an elder dies, a library burns.

I'm a generation removed, but my grandmother was a nurse in WWII. One of the strongest and fondest memories I have of her is her teaching me how to boil and re-roll bandages and stretch supplies. Totally unnecessary skill in the 1980s, but this is how we bonded... I was young and didn't understand.

Years and years ago, I brought friends to Germany. We stayed at my brother's house. At one point, there was a piece on the radio. All they could make out was "bomb" and "evacuation", because those sound similar in English and German. They were concerned and asked, because none of the Germans reacted

I initially waved it off with a brief "Oh they're just clearing a bomb from a building site. It's fine." At their horror, I explained that this wasn't "an attack" (this was post 2001, so... ya know...), but a historical find. They couldn't wrap their head around growing up in a place where, every

I've had them found near where I was living both in the UK and Germany. Also areas of scrubland with enough UXO that there are signs telling you to call the police if you see anything metallic poking out of the ground

General word of warning: if YouTube thinks you are getting interested in World War II, you may need to smack the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend this channel" buttons a few times before the algorithm gets the idea of World War II But Not Like That.

I’ve been watching WWII documentaries on YouTube since like 2006 so rest assured lol (but yeah this is true!)

I was moved by seeing all those older people who left comments. But I was very disturbed at the number of “the wrong side won” type comments made lately under the video.

Oh yes, I just reported a bunch of those…

During the Kosovo campaign, I met an old German guy who told me about the night when, having just hung up the washing when the siren went off, his mother refused to let them go to shelter until it had been taken down. She'd rather have blown up than rewash at that point.