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To: RushLake

Hey, when you finally get over there, don't forget to visit the World War I cemeteries as well. They tend to be obscured by Normandy and the other World War II sites.


5 posted on 02/05/2007 3:51:23 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Yes indeed. A great website about WWI is Hellfire Corner. They have links to the cemeteries. Additionally, I just read a recent book by Sir Martin Gilbert--I believe its title was "The Somme" or "The Battle of the Somme" (I'm up north in the midst of the cough, cough, global warming deep freeze, the book is 220 miles south in that part of the global warming freeze) which zeroed in on several of the cemeteries associated with that battlefield. The book is a great read too.


6 posted on 02/05/2007 9:21:58 AM PST by RushLake (I neutered my dog; now he's a liberal.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Visit the German cemetaries as well---very somber as the stones are black and the place was not as well kept as ours is---since I was there for the 40th and 50th Anniversary it may be different now---as a vet of the Normandy Invasion, I found it to be an excellent reminder that all involved lost their sons,husbands, brothers and fathers during the war no matter which side they were on.


16 posted on 02/26/2007 7:25:34 PM PST by cmotormac44
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