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[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

My grandfather enlisted at 18 to fight in WWII. He was the second youngest of 13 siblings. His oldest brother died around age 18 in the flu pandemic that was going on during WWI. My reference point for the space between the wars has always been the time it took to have 13 children.