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That had to hurt!
Posted by David Hardy · 6 January 2022 01:22 PM
A French cuirass recovered from the battlefield at Waterloo. They were meant to protect against pistol shots and saber slashes, not against a direct hit from artillery. The caption says the wearer was "wounded by a cannonball." I doubt he was wounded for very long.
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Flight-ER-Doc: One of the first glimmers I ever had of understanding military honor was a scene in Starship Troopers where the protagonist is awarded his first insignia of officer's rank--lieutenant's bars, if I'm not mistaken. They bear brown stains, which he is admonished never to clean off.
It's just a flesh wound.
(Monty Python 1975)
Nice of them to buff the blood stains out