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US soldier wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave in Germany, WW2, 1945
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Look at me. I'm the emperor now!
I understand the war, the pain, the stress and all. But you don't handle an ancient object like that... You should feel the importance of the thing for all the human people, as an extraordinary artifact... Average extra ignorant USer, moreover a soldier one... Bleah
To be fair morale could not have been that high in one of the worst modern wars in world history...least he didn't destroy it.
That I get, as I said. And yes, he didn't destroy it at least