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Averander t1_j8kauk3 wrote

Reply to comment by stirfriedglory in How an All-Black Female WWII Unit Saved Morale on the Battlefield | History by That-Situation-4262

It is the fact that we continue to ignore the importance of services of minority populations in those events. It would take literally no effort to acknowledge them, and yet 80 years on and we still are only just managing to give some begrudging credit (and even then not much in books). Yet the documentation is all there, meticulous.

When the easy work hasn't been done for decades, it speaks volumes about the hard work.

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Disastrous_Sun2932 t1_j8kbvu3 wrote

I mean, at the end of the day it’s a soldier. They serve their country, and that’s what matters the most

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Averander t1_j8kc8gi wrote

Unless their service is never acknowledged and they are treated as never having served. Which happened for many.

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Disastrous_Sun2932 t1_j8kd9le wrote

Unfortunately not all heroes see the light of the day. I bet there are thousands stories of many soldiers from various countries and ethnicities that were never told

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Averander t1_j8keqiw wrote

And that's what can be changed, easily. Those people can be acknowledged and the wrongs of that era made right. It wouldn't take huge monetary or social change, but acknowledging these people and their contributions.

When that can't be done, it really makes you wonder.

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ABetterKamahl1234 t1_j8kll6v wrote

> Those people can be acknowledged and the wrongs of that era made right. It wouldn't take huge monetary or social change, but acknowledging these people and their contributions.

Depending on the group, it can be hard to dig up information to accurately depict this if there was something like rampant racism that refused to acknowledge contributions.

It's hard to bring up 80 year old information that never got written down, many of the people involved wouldn't even still be alive.

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Averander t1_j8knocq wrote

However their service has been recorded, that is the issue here. Meticulous records of troops and service were kept, through logs, diaries and other records. We have absolutely unfathomable amounts of data from the period, hence so many documentaries and historical books upon the era.

The people may not be alive, but the records are very much intact. While people were very much racist, they were still very happy recording every detail.

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