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My mom found my great-grandfather's discharge paper from the US army. It's 107 years old. (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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I may have gone a little overboard with the redactions, but you can't be too careful.

When I showed this picture to him, my dad pointed out that my great-grandfather was demobilized a week after the end of WWI.

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Christian name first?”

That is a whole basket of assumptions about people.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

In this case christian name is a synonym for given name. I bet if someone was baptised with a name that doesn't match their legal given name it would be the wrong choice in this context.

[–] Drekaridill@feddit.is 9 points 1 week ago

Everyone knows that there were only Christians in America before Obama /s