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Shoes are expensive! (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] Steve@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Omg this was in my grandfathers memoirs no joke

[โ€“] Aqarius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I vaguely remember a story about.. I think it was South America, about a soldier who more or less went to war with a mission to get shoes for his family, and basically just went around checking corpses for boots that would fit his kids and cousins.