• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Sounds like he might have been a wee bit of a psychopath. I wonder what they’d have found if they dug up his cellar when he died.

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      5 days ago

      Possibly, but if you read about the rest of his life it seems like he just really enjoyed adventure, and, in common with many others, saw war as a thrilling, life-or-death, adventure.

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          1 day ago

          I think ‘mad as a sack full of badgers’ might be a more appropriate fit, but I can see the psychopath accusation, although he seems to mostly not cared about his own safety rather than displayed an unusual level of psycopathy for a soilder. If you read about the rest of his life it looks like hus feeling of invulnerability continued.