[DoodleDawg]

The teacher who delivered the address told us about something I had not heard of before. There are 53 villages in the United Kingdom known as the Thankful Villages: villages where there is no war memorial, because every one of the young men returned alive. When we think that there are more than 16,000 villages in the country, we glimpse the magnitude of the tragedy.

Fifty three out of sixteen thousand. And I understand that of those 53, 13 are called Double Thankful because they didn't lose anyone in World War II either.

In France there is a single village in the entire country which did not lose a son during World War I.

[Dysart]

Yes, those stats are always sobering; boggling really; especially of the toll on French villages.