Did they find any picklebaums?
7:34am CST
To: Mikey_1962
2 posted on
02/14/2012 5:58:57 AM PST by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Mikey_1962
Pretty fascinating. They’ll probably never run out of buried World War I artifacts in France and Belgium given the magnitude of what went on there.
3 posted on
02/14/2012 6:03:06 AM PST by
SpaceBar
To: Mikey_1962
Pickelhaube. Unless I missed a joke.
Unlikely. By 1918, the standard helmet was the stahlhelm - the German “coal scuttle.”
In any case, pickelhauben were usually made out of hard leather. They would have been in pretty bad shape after nearly a century in the dirt. Nothing would have been left except the furniture (brass).
Poor guys. Hope it was quick.
4 posted on
02/14/2012 6:11:30 AM PST by
Little Ray
(FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: Mikey_1962
All really quiet on the western front.
6 posted on
02/14/2012 6:23:49 AM PST by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(How bad would an Obama II administration be, without the constraints of re-election?)
To: Mikey_1962
7 posted on
02/14/2012 6:46:41 AM PST by
svcw
(Only difference between Romney & BH is one thinks he will be god & other one thinks he already is.)
To: Mikey_1962
Even the skeleton of a goat was found, assumed to be a source of fresh milk for the soldiers.
Yeah! /sarc
8 posted on
02/14/2012 6:47:59 AM PST by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Peanut Gallery
To: Mikey_1962
I guess this would be a German version of the Trench of Bayonets.
10 posted on
02/14/2012 7:05:36 AM PST by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: Mikey_1962
Water would in some circumstances actually aid in preservation, especially if the burial was in mud. The fine mud seals out oxygen. Water itself can be deoxygenated, and then also acts like a sealant, keeping atmospheric oxygen away from the artifacts.
World War I was a total disaster, and never should have been allowed to happen. Britain especially had no excuse for getting involved. The result was that hundreds of thousands of young men were killed, and a generation depleted. The loss of morale effected every participating country. Good governments were destroyed, so that in their place socialist dictatorships could arise. More wars then followed. All this was unnecessary.
The leaders of those days were total fools to let this happen. And we see little sign that modern leaders are any smarter.
12 posted on
02/14/2012 7:49:13 AM PST by
docbnj
To: Mikey_1962
Im Westen nichts Neues
13 posted on
02/14/2012 7:51:20 AM PST by
Savage Beast
(Only a powerful intellect and internal moral compass can resist the incessant barrage of propaganda.)
To: Mikey_1962
A WWI documentary, Digging up the Trenches, was aired a few years ago and still pops up from time to time on cable.
Excellent show and can be
seen here on Utube.
19 posted on
02/14/2012 8:37:29 AM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: SunkenCiv
What is the difference between these guys and Oetzi the Iceman? Is it because we don’t know their names that we give them a proper Christian burial and we stick Oetzi in a padlocked freezer?
20 posted on
02/14/2012 10:59:07 AM PST by
Sawdring
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