This a self-indulgent tangent, but I feel like our little habitual social niceties when talking about death oughtn't apply when talking about World War I.
I feel like we owe it to history, and to ourselves, to preserve the grimness of it all, and speak truthfully about it - Marc didn't die there, Marc was killed at the Battle of Verdun. We're more than a century past - there's no need to soften the phrasing to spare anyone's feelings.
Marc died in 1916 at the Battle of Verdun.
ReplyDeleteThis a self-indulgent tangent, but I feel like our little habitual social niceties when talking about death oughtn't apply when talking about World War I.
I feel like we owe it to history, and to ourselves, to preserve the grimness of it all, and speak truthfully about it - Marc didn't die there, Marc was killed at the Battle of Verdun. We're more than a century past - there's no need to soften the phrasing to spare anyone's feelings.