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A comment on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects (2012). Parent comment

Re:Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects (2012) by vadimberman on Monday March 05, 2018 @08:47AM (#16520967)
> He had fought the Boer War for the Dutch

Sorry for the dumb question, but...

He was in his 60s during WWII when he was captured?

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Re:Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects (2012) by equalunique on Monday March 05, 2018 @12:39PM (#16522732)
Yep. Looks like I got that fact wrong. Perhaps it was his regimen which had been in the Boer War in the past, but not himself. Or maybe it was his father. I don't really know. The woman who knows the story is quite old with dementia.
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