In World War I, we frequently had the phenomenon known as "Broken faces" that's because people would get hit with bullets or shrapnell and it would disfigure their face but not kill them.

It was devastating for many of these veterans.

Here is a before and after

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This is a soldier from France.

Here is a monument to these soldiers in UK.

Sometimes the best they could do was "facial prosthetics" aka mask.

Ann Coleman Ladd, an American sculptor, devoted almost her entire lives to these injured https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/21/throughout-wwi-anna-coleman-ladd-designed-detailed-facial-prosthetics-disfigured-soldiers-2/

Each country had millions of disabled.

Here is a German veteran doing carpentry without an arm.

Poster from England about the disabled WW1 vet

In fact, there were so many...

Now, remember all the social Democratic parties that aided and abetted this when they voted with their bourgeoise for the war

Yes. Richard Harrow in Boardwalk empire was an injured World War 1 vet with this phenomenon

Dr. Mauru from Wonder Woman also.