"We need history. It helps shape the future."

[NoPasaran]

Nearly 90 years after the guns fell silent, the mud of Flanders is still giving up its secrets.

This week, in a farmer's field near Ypres, a group of amateur historians found the remains of three soldiers from the First World War.

Two of the bodies bore no identification, although one still had half its uniform, as well as a spoon, fork and a bayonet.

On the third, the historians found an identification tag. The chain had been broken and the tag pushed forward into the skull, probably by a farmer's plough passing over it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4911268.stm

[babylonsister]

1. Wow, interesting that any remains were left.

Too bad the powers that be often choose to ignore history.

[pretzel4gore]

2. what was the 1st world war about?

the 3 soldiers probably never knew either

[NoPasaran]

3. It was about a great many things

Many of which didn't make their way into the patriotic slogans of the time.