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To: virgil
Likely a few bones still laying around here and there.

More than a few. 72,000 British and Commonwealth missing and never found from the Somme alone. Soldiers in the trenches could shake the protruding hands of dead comrades before going over the top. MIA numbers for WWI Apparently, it was considered "good luck". Horrible war that led to British and French aversion to another one and their appeasement of Hitler.

9 posted on 08/07/2018 5:05:48 PM PDT by katana (We're all part of a long episode of "The Terrific Mr. Trump")
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Field Marshall Montgomery was shot through the body during WWI. He was a Lieutenant. After a year he returned to his men instead of taking a well deserved retirement.

I believe that had something to do with his being so careful in WWII.


13 posted on 08/07/2018 5:11:10 PM PDT by yarddog
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It’s just astounding how many lives were poured into those battlefields.


18 posted on 08/07/2018 5:18:07 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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