I'm getting a lot of "Did you serve in the military?" comments on WW2TV at the moment. I thought we had moved on from that old chestnut long ago.
IMHO it is not necessary to have served to share military history. I know brilliant civilian military historians and brilliant ex-military historians
IMHO it is not necessary to have served to share military history. I know brilliant civilian military historians and brilliant ex-military historians
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One of my (long passed) granddads was a WW2 army dentist, spent time in Egypt, but don't know whether he even carried a weapon
To be the more conservative veterans, and always say it because they don’t like what’s being said. I know some left leaning veterans, they never say it
Lol
If anything it’s a benefit to not have prior bias imho.
No officers or cadets has ever said to me that I have had to serve to teach them military history, not to my face at least 🧐😆
People seriously still pull the whole "you weren't there!"???
It's also oddly something particular to military history. Nobody says, "You can't study the Nazis because you weren't a Nazi" but maybe that's where we are going. LOL
It's pretty tiresome
"And none of that. NONE of that is relevant. It gives ke no fucking idea what it was like to be in a WW2 tank. Being a historian and researching sources does though."
A deep respect for the military is, but that’s different.