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Originally Posted by Matador.es
I seriously respect your opinion, but after time passes, things get forgotten while they might as well be remembered. I think an "in between" solution would be an option, like, after 100 years you can retrieve it for cultural proposes.
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Originally Posted by August
My own great grandfather August was a WW1 German infantryman who was killed in action on Oct 3rd 1918. As far as our family knows his body was never recovered.
Now while I appreciate your sentiments I have to say that if they ever discover his body I'd rather see it exhumed and given a proper burial at his home in Altenbuch with the rest of the family. I'd hate to see them leave him laying in a patch of weeds somewhere for just research purposes.
The one thing that all soldiers or sailors want is to go home when it's over. I think those WW1 U-boat men deserve that if it's possible.
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I respect both of your view points, i just hope i didn't come across wrong with the word 'research', it probably made me sound a little inhumane, far from it, infact i have edited this word out from my original post.