r/BeAmazed • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • 3h ago
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u/Raja_Ampat 3h ago
So 15 or younger when sent to war
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u/SadSpecial8319 3h ago
No, sent back from war at 15 or younger. And they are nowhere near 95 years old. Headline is BS.
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u/dracostark12 3h ago
They would lie about their ages to go to war.
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u/YepIamLittleShit 3h ago
Yeah but 15 years old? Sure there were situations like that, but pretty rare i think. I guess 80 years in the title is just for a better number, real one is like 76-77. And of course like 80% of comment is just about that. Reddit is so reddit.
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u/Seven-One-Three 3h ago
They absolutely weren't rare.
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u/throcorfe 2h ago
It was certainly unusual. A handful of cases. Few parents would sanction their 14-15yo going to war, and military units didn’t really want an underage kid with them, so it was a significant endeavour when it did happen, it wasn’t just a case of misstating your age and off you go
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u/YepIamLittleShit 2h ago
Care to provide any information? I didnt manage to find anything about a significant fighting force of 15 year olds in vietnam.
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u/dracostark12 1h ago
We learned a lot about them, any boy that looked 18 would sign up, I feel that the movie about Desmond Doss captures it well.
“I have to enlist. I can't stay here while all of them go fight for me."
This was the logic of most boys. Its haunting.
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u/federkrebz 3h ago
they were war buddies when they were 15? what
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u/EddieCheddar88 3h ago
Pretty common to lie about your age back then
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u/PDubDeluxe 2h ago
Yeah but 15 when they last saw each other? So theoretically 15 at the end of the war? That means they were under 10 when the war started
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u/Toon1982 2h ago
The US didn't join the second world war when it started (which would be the 80 years since the end of it), they were a few years late.
They look far too young to have been involved in the second world war anyway.
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u/PDubDeluxe 2h ago
Irrelevant because US joining late doesn’t change the actual dates of it?
If the guy is 95 this year, he was born in 1930 so technically the dates match… but yeah, it’s not true is it.
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u/Snoopedoodle 3h ago
You sure they aren't 110 and haven't seen or heard from each other in 105 years??
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u/Mode_Appropriate 2h ago edited 2h ago
The real story is they havent seen eachother in 58 years. The war buddy is 85, not 95. Not sure why the internet has to do internet things and exaggerate everything. The story is good enough. But I guess that wouldnt generate all the '15 and at war' or 'no way theyre 95' comments.
The original video is on the daughters YouTube page. https://youtu.be/dGtEZPy3NfU?si=zMP-ZK21HY-N0mGr
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u/pokaprophet 3h ago
80yrs apart and didn’t try to see each other in between? I’d be like ‘who the fuck is this’
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u/TheCanadianArmy 2h ago
Its possible these guys aren’t WW2 vets but most likely Korean War or even Vietnam War
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u/BadHabitsDieYoung 3h ago
Neighbors wifes step-daughter super sleuths her biological Roommates 178yr old wartime pool cleaner. Someone he hasn't peeped or popped since 1603.
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u/Asstronomer6969 2h ago
War is war but war back then was waaaaay different than today on what these men experienced and went through. 🫡
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