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Lest we forget - Why Fromelles excavation is important - Guest - 15th August 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5HQzMWbbVM
when you watch this think also of those working from Oxford Archaeology - they need support. I am hopeful that OA will ensure the diggers will receive it. As to the comments in the Australian Press .. hmm. A bit below the belt.
Lest we forget - Why Fromelles excavation is important - GnomeKing - 6th September 2009
i mean no disrespect by this, but i am really not sure about that project...
firstly, my view is that the recovery of 400 90-year old bodies only highlights the many thousands more out there, many more around the world, and much more recent. thats a lot more stories that will never have "Closure", many of them by virtue of the chance that saw them born to nations without the wealth to attempt this kind of work...
i know the piont is not to gloryfiy war - but a cant help but think that once this particular can has been opened, how can the time and money spent on the recovery be justified compared to spending directly on current issues?
its not the archaeologists - i wish them well
- , but who is funding this work? and why?
secondly, is there much to learn archaeologicaly speaking from the project ? - or is it more about the repatriation of human remains? if the latter, then my congratulations go out to the few who might achieve "closure" after 90 years. For the rest of us it may serve as a reminder of the horrors of war - though why we would need a reminder i do not know...
there can be no closure when conflict STILL rages across the world, despite the best efforts of those who believed they were fighting for us.
those unfortunate men in those mass graves represent a tiny portion of the horror.
i beleive in this case, they should have been left in the ground and the whole site designated as a Permanent
Monument to the Belief of mankind even when ordered to thier deaths by Murderes and Fools, and the Great Sorrows that upon each other, people have inflicted.
i am not opposed to the project per se, i just cant rationalise it myself...