Archaeologists find the bodies of 21 tragic World War One German soldiers...

DailyMail ^ | 10th February 2012 | Graham Smith

[Daffynition]

Abbreviated title: The 'Pompeii' of the Western Front: Archaeologists find the bodies of 21 tragic World War One German soldiers in perfectly preserved trenches where they were buried alive by an Allied shell

The bodies of 21 German soldiers entombed in a perfectly preserved World War One shelter have been discovered 94 years after they were killed.

The men were part of a larger group of 34 who were buried alive when a huge Allied shell exploded above the tunnel in 1918, causing it to cave in.

Thirteen bodies were recovered from the underground shelter, but the remaining men had to be left under a mountain of mud as it was too dangerous to retrieve them.

Nearly a century later, French archaeologists stumbled upon the mass grave on the former Western Front in eastern France during excavation work for a road building project.

[SunkenCiv]

Oddly, your quote made perfect sense to me. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Daffynition. Not sure I would necessarily call their deaths *tragic.* They had loved ones, maybe were old enough and motivated enough to have left behind children. Just an add, not a ping. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[TASMANIANRED]

Tragic....it’s the consequence of war, nothing unexpected about it.

[Revolting cat!]

They should of listened to the hippies!

[GreenHornet]

On Feb. 4th, a British woman named Florence Green passed away in England at the age of 110. She had been the last known surviving veteran of World War One. All are gone now.