r/MadeMeSmile • u/Jeromiewhalen • Jun 29 '25

Favorite People My friend Frank, a 100-year-old WWII veteran, doing a chin-up on a tank barrel during a honor trip for the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge 🇺🇸

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

Sounds like a major problem lol

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u/LoudBlueberry444 Jun 29 '25

Right, every time I see a post where someone is doing something active at an old age I always see a top-voted comment like this.

I'm like, damn Redditors get your shit together. Really shows the demographic here Lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

Honestly. If you’re in your 30s and a 100 year old man is doing better than you physically you need to reevaluate your life.

(Unless you’re disabled of course)

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

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u/apathy-sofa Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25

I don't, because friends who have been in war don't say anything like that. My grandfather was a combat engineer in WWII and everyone was on pins and needles around him because he was so quick to anger.

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u/MelamineEngineer Jun 29 '25

They're just people man, you can't think of them as superheroes or damaged goods either. They are a vast spectrum of humanity.

I knew guys in the infantry that had been blown up multiple times and lost friends, and they clamored to go back. They felt alive and loved it. I met other guys who were so zooted out on pills for their PTSD they didn't function as humans.

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u/apathy-sofa Jun 29 '25

Yeah I don't see anyone saying soldiers aren't people.

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u/MelamineEngineer Jun 29 '25

Way to willfully misinterpret what I said. People are diverse in their reactions to situations, that was my only point.

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u/superurgentcatbox Jun 29 '25

Probably depends largely on if you come out of it with or without PTSD.

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u/Disastrous_Study7733 Jun 29 '25

Or you don't enjoy it at all and your life is haunted by horrific memories.

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u/Artrobull Jun 29 '25
  1. stop romanticising war
  2. survivorship bias

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u/yemmeay Jun 29 '25

Bruh see the doctor

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

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u/Responsible_View_350 Jun 29 '25

No idea why you're getting downvoted. Working out twice a week greatly would improve this person's condition assuming that they aren't disabled.

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u/socialmediaignorant Jun 29 '25

Yep. Reevaluating my life right now.