Saturday, November 12, 2011
Many soldiers in WWI suffered devastating head and facial injuries. I've seen pictures. They were horrifying
even after surgery. There must have been thousands and thousands of them. My question is, what happened to the men with ruined faces after the war. True my post WWI reading is limited pretty much to Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers and the like but nobody ever mentions bumping into guys who look like they came out of a nightmare. People have trouble getting good help and they're going broke from paying taxes but nobody ever mentions of thousands of ghastly damaged faces in the grocery stores or on the buses. Do you know of anything I can read that would describe the life of such a patient or what it was like to live someplace where such people lived in significant numbers?
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