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Comments by "Elizabeth Loveland" (@Shineon83) on "From Crofter To General - The Amazing Career Of General Sir Hector MacDonald" video.
….MacDonald’s position strikes me as having been a very lonely & isolated one ( gaping class distinctions aside, every time he spoke, his peers must have been jolted by his pronounced dialect )…”Respect” for his fighting abilities would not have prevented the social sleights & teasing he must have constantly endured. And then, the whispers…? To carry such a secret ( in an age when a “stiff upper lip” was synonymous with being a soldier ), he would have had not a soul to confide in….( Makes me wonder if it was really his own demons he was fighting with such brutality during his many battlefield engagements )?….
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