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[nineveh_uk]

Damn you, Europe! Out of y/our rich history of slaughtering people in many and varied nations how do you manage not to have a war going on convenient to my purposes in the late 1920s? 1924 - 1934 is literally the sole empty period in the Wikipedia section of lists of conflicts in Europe in the C20. I thought I was safe with a random line that a character would have seen military service, but apparently not.

Random fact of the day (courtesy of Wikipedia: Lieutenant Józef Kowalski, of Poland, was the last known living survivor of the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-21. He was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta on his 110th birthday by the president of Poland. He died on 7 December 2013 at the age of 113.

Comments

[sir_guinglain]

There must be a colonial conflict, or a quasi-colonial conflict such as in South America...

[nineveh_uk]

Lots of them! But unfortunately not really suitable for the character's nationality, nor aversion to sunlight...

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Could that someone have served in the colonies and been involved in an attempted revolution or attack?

[sonetka.livejournal.com]

Seconding this -- not much going on in Europe proper, but French and British holdings were getting pretty lively right about then. Could the character have seen service in Africa, Palestine or Syria?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Not really. In fact, the narrator would have been drawing an incorrect conclusion about another character's experience, so if the conclusion isn't around to be easily drawn, it can just be left out. Still, it is annoying!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Alas, extra-European empire doesn't really work for the purpose. I was hoping for some sort of ex-Austro-Hungarian Balkan skirmish or something that a character could plausibly have been involved in, but they all seem to have been over a bit sooner than I can plausibly use without aging the character up a bit too much. It was only a minor note so probably I will just drop it.