Saturday, May 9, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
CNN: WWI mass graves to be exhumed in France - '... The Commonwealth War Graves Commission estimates there are between 225 and 400 bodies in the pits. "It's the largest military find since the end of the Second World War," said the agency's spokesman, Peter Francis. "I have been on the commission almost 11 years and it's like nothing I have ever experienced. I have never known anything to have this sort of numbers of possible remains." On Tuesday, the commission will begin a 15-month project to disinter the bodies, attempt to identify them, and rebury them in individual graves in a new cemetery on the site...'
