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31/08/2026 9:50 pm
Hello from Finland 🙂 With ADHD passion to WWII!
Spark to WWII came from seeing Saving Private Ryan as a kid probably 10 or so, watched it in secret after bedtime. That tiger tank was so cool! Albeit as a kid I always thought it was a Sherman tank but heh, don't think they really told what tank it was in the movie properly. My family of course got ties to war as we fought Russia in WWII. Winter war and Continuation war and Lapland war. From my dad's side 10 brothers went to war but only 3 came back. Not much really was talked or passed down to my generation, sort of don't speak thing. And now everyone dead. So I don't know details sadly. Someone told me my family may have had 1 of those 10 take part in Waffen-SS (the one finnish send) but no idea if that's true or not. Probably when my parents die I will do family history search. Until then it's just history without details 🙂
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31/08/2026 10:01 pm
Hi Samuel,
Welcome to the WarCommons community! Very glad to have you here and I hope more people will join soon, so we can make this into a real active and knowledgeable community.
Thank you for sharing your personal story, the movie Saving Private Ryan ks an absolute classic masterpiece.
I've granted you your Founding Member status as you can see on your profile. The special Founding Member medal is coming very soon!
As Field Reserve you can participate in the WarCommons General discussion, and as a Founding Member you have an exclusive subforum that's only accessible for the Founding Members. We're still shaping that subforum, so feel free to reach out if you have certain general topics you want to see added there other than what is already present under Field Reserve and Field Command.
Hope you enjoy our community and our content.
- Nick
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01/09/2026 7:42 pm
Alright cool. Just one thread right there? I know it's sticky but for whatever reason it doesn't show other posts at all to me (not even mine) so is there something I'm missing out or did I actually happen to find a bug 🤔 Cause this thread shows them fine
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01/09/2026 9:00 pm
That's correct. There is one thread under Field Reserve, the general warcommons discussion where other topics can't be made. But you can continue the sticky thread with a new topic! Your message with the youtube link can be found there as well.
Full forum access is for Field Command members. Still you will have some freedom inside of the exclusive Founding Members subforum named Founders' Command HQ. I'm still in the process of shaping that section of the forum, as that is only for the first 50 members that join our community. I hope soon more Founding Members will join so we can shape that section of the forum together!
