@thepoliticalcat @Darkphoenix @VeroniqueB99 @glasspusher @edwilk @hyc My dad told that story (or a similar one), too - just not at the dinner table. It was maybe sort of borrowed valor; since he'd served, but only in a rear-echelon position for the last few months of the war.

My mom told the really grisly stories (again, not at the dinner table) from when she'd visited Europe with a church charity in 1946. About how people who'd lived on almost nothing but potatoes for years really did have that watery grey skin tone like in Van Gogh's "The Potato Eaters." About caring for the feet of men who'd been abandoned on the Eastern Front when V-E Day came; and who had walked back to Germany* more-or-less barefoot, about how "peaceful" it was in the (flattened, empty, incinerated, ashen) parts of Dresden that had been firebombed by the Allies.

*Yes, my mother was kind to Nazis - or at least to mostly unwilling draftees who seemed to have already been punished enough.**

**Also, we are talking about my Moms here; so, if you want to make something of it...

#grisly
#gory
#war
#WarStories
#DefinitelyNot #Gravy

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#IT's #StillRaining in #TheOutside; but, that's #OK...

There's #Still #StuffToDo in #DiabloIVWorld; #MyLittleBigBuddy is #ReallyLookingForward to #IT... With #CrossPlatformFunctionality...

#Something for the #RacistHomophobes at #SSG and #TheLittleLotROPixies to have a #LittleThink about... On "they/them's" #DeadGame on #NonEuropeanServer(s)... While #NoOne is #BuyingLotRO...

#AsYouWere... #KeepOnKeepingOn...

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#IT's #JollySunny in #TheOutside, aye... #IT must be #SpringTime...

#YouKnow what is #QuiteNice about #GrownUps #Playing a #GoodGame; #IT's #GoodToShare...

#SpeakingPersonally, I don't #Think I "need" to #PlayOblivion... #Again... I've #AlreadyBought and #PlayedIT #LoadsAndLoads; but, #IF that's #YourThing... #KnockYourselvesOut...

#Something for the #RacistHomophobes at #SSG and #TheLittleLotROPixies to have a #LittleThink about... On "they/them's" #DeadGame on #NonEuropeanServer(s)... While #NoOne is #BuyingLotRO...

#DontForget; #DiscordIsForImbeciles...

#TheRules:

1: #KnowTheRules
2: #RememberTheRules
3: #TryNotToKillAnyone

#TryNot to #UpsetTheVolcano and #RememberTheRules...

And, #TheFediverseRemembers... #JustLikeJesus

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#YouKnow what is #QuiteNice about #GrownUps #Playing a #GoodGame; #IT's #GoodToShare...

We're #MostProbably #Ready for #TheNextSeason and #IT's #CommunalBathBubbles #Time...

#MyLittleBigBuddy is #InCharge of #TheNextSeason; #So, he's going to take the #Spiritborn for a #RunThrough and #See #What's #What...

#DontForget; #DiscordIsForImbeciles...

#TheRules:

1: #KnowTheRules
2: #RememberTheRules
3: #TryNotToKillAnyone

#TryNot to #UpsetTheVolcano and #RememberTheRules...

And, #TheFediverseRemembers... #JustLikeJesus

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#YouKnow what is #QuiteNice about #GrownUps #Playing a #GoodGame; #IT's #GoodToShare...

#Once the #SeasonOfWitchcraft #ComesToAnEnd (and #IT #Will); I can #Make the #Doombringer and #MyLittleBigBuddy and I can #ShareIT... He can also #Borrow #MyPurplePolearm; or we can #Craft: #TheGrandfather... #IT's a #BitLike #TheGodfather; but without all the #CatholicDogma and #TheAbominableAlPacino... With #CrossPlatformFunctionality...

And, #SeasonComplete with #DaysToSpare before #TheEnd of the #SeasonOfWitchcraft; #IT's been a #GreatSeason... #LotsOfFun...

#Something for the #RacistHomophobes at #SSG and #TheLittleLotROPixies to have a #LittleThink about... On "they/them's" #DeadGame on #NonEuropeanServer(s)...

#DontForget; #DiscordIsForImbeciles...

#TheRules:

1: #KnowTheRules
2: #RememberTheRules
3: #TryNotToKillAnyone

#TryNot to #UpsetTheVolcano and #RememberTheRules...

And, #TheFediverseRemembers... #JustLikeJesus

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#IT's #JollySunny in #TheOutside...

#YouKnow what is #QuiteNice about #GrownUps #Playing a #GoodGame; #IT's #GoodToShare...

#IT's a #HappHappy #HappyAnniversary for #ESOWorld (for #TheUmpteenthTime)...

#IT's #Good; #WeHaveCake... #LotsAndLots of #Cake...

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#YouKnow what is #QuiteNice about #GrownUps #Playing a #GoodGame; #IT's #GoodToShare...

#Once the #SeasonOfWitchcraft #ComesToAnEnd (and #IT #Will); I can #Make the #Doombringer and #MyLittleBigBuddy and I can #ShareIT... With #CrossPlatformFunctionality...

There are #Still a #Couple of #BitsAndBobs to do before #TheEnd of the #SeasonOfWitchcraft; #IT's been a #GreatSeason... #LotsOfFun...

#Something for the #RacistHomophobes at #SSG and #TheLittleLotROPixies to have a #LittleThink about... On "they/them's" #DeadGame on #NonEuropeanServer(s)...

#Meanwhile... #ESOWorld has been #Updaticated; #So, we can #StopBeingQuiteSoRacist because of the #BlackFace #Rendering... We're #SureShaw you're #MuchRelieved... #JustLikeJesus...

And, #FancyHats... #DontForget the #FancyHats... And, #TheRightStaff™️

Get your #GlypshOn...

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#YouKnow what is #QuiteNice about #GrownUps #Playing a #GoodGame; #IT's #GoodToShare...

#Once the #SeasonOfWitchcraft #ComesToAnEnd (and #IT #Will); I can #Make the #Doombringer and #MyLittleBigBuddy and I can #ShareIT... With #CrossPlatformFunctionality...

#Something for the #RacistHomophobes at #SSG and #TheLittleLotROPixies to have a #LittleThink about... On "they/them's" #DeadGame on #NonEuropeanServer(s)...

#TopTip: #OnlyForProfessionals...

#NeverUnderEstimate #ThePower of #AncestralPants... #TheHealingPowerOfPants and #SparklyThings...

And, #FancyHats... And, #TheRightStaff™️

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