Young people: There was a time, in the age of print, that magazines and newspapers had editors, who were mean-spirted-gentle-encouragers-angry-but fatherly old men who yelled a lot. The results of their temperament was a flawless creation and writers who were terrified not to hand in their best work. Those days are gone. Read the paragraph below from an British paper. A land mine is a metallic object. They blew up when stepped on. They DID NOT shoot people.
David Berman (left with his wife Gladys) felt compelled to join WWII in 1941 but was rejected by the American Army for his criminal record and for being too old. Instead he paid off people to join the Canadian Army and was the last of three men to survive in his unit while fighting in Italy. Berman was honorably discharged in 1944 after he was shot and wounded by a landmine.