Sobering stuff

[guest7]

Some of the articles recovered from WWI graves during a recent dig to try and identify the remains, BBC page HERE

The train ticket is the one that gets me.

GC

[guest27]

Sober read, the belief that he would be making the Freemantle to Perth return...

Today's bible slot on R4 was from Auschwitz and was similarly sobering.

Makes me realise that I was born at the right time (1961) and despite living through the cold war have actually lived through one of the safest periods for an European to live.

R

[guest18]

A good friend of mine gets involved in that sort of stuff a lot (forensic archeologist). She was involved with clearing mass graves in Bosnia and Kosovo as well as a large number of WW1 excavations. We've had a few conversations about it late into the night and I still struggle to understand how we manage to do the things to each other that we do 
Very often horrible things, humans 

[robG]

I'm reading a lot of WW1 books at the moment. Harry Patch's biography was very good, very thought provoking.

Rob.

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 i was reading a book just about the somme offensive. the bit that got me was sheer volume of death. 250'000 men to move a 3 mile stretch of the front line forward by 1/4 mile!
 thats 250'000 families destroyed during one insignificant battle in one section of a massive war.

the end of blackadder goes forth also gets me, everytime.

 bullet350

[guest24]

I'm reading a lot of WW1 books at the moment. Harry Patch's biography was very good, very thought provoking.

I've read Harry's book as well, and it is fantastic. It's even more poignant now as the old duffer has leaped off this mortal coil himself and so no-one can write a book like that again about WW1