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Mildly Interesting

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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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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there a reason for this ?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Comic sans wasn't invented yet.

I mean, I joke, but it probably actually wasn't.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It wasn't, not by a long shot. Comic sans is a mere 31 years old.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

That's what historians in future Generations will call the beginning of the decline.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I've seen London, I've seen France, I've seen docs in Comic Sans.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Notice the printed date, One thousand nine hundred and ________

Clearly this is one of the things they had to update for Y2K.

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

OP make sure you or a family member makes a good resolution digital scan of it. Bonus if you contribute it to something like Wikitree for future generations.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 1 day ago

Ruddy complexion

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

“Christian name first?”

That is a whole basket of assumptions about people.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 10 points 1 day 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 day ago

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Bah. We were trying to buy a house older than that. And it wasn't a fancy "heritage" house either.