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Old 07-17-12, 09:34 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Stealhead View Post
Actually this is how many archaeological uh finds are discovered.You have to remember that WWI was nearly 100 years ago and much of the information about the location and layout of trenches has long since been lost so some farmer finds something or some utility workers about to check a water line find something that is how it very often works.

In a war sometimes you get no time to know who any one is around you troops might get moved in from another part of the front in a large battle most of a unit might get wiped out and then beyond the fact of names on some list they no nothing more besides the fact that they are all dead.
Exactly, and since nearly every square foot of Europe was a battlefield or town at some point every shovelful of dirt might contain some lost bit of human history.
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