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The French need to remove these toxic materials as it will only do more damage as ordinance containers corrode and release chemicals.
I would love to visit. I really wonder how many people have been killed by live mines/mortars in recent years.
I'm headed to Normandy with a side trip to Verdun in November of this year.
..... I vividly remember him speaking of "going over the top", living in trenches with dead bloated bodies about, and eating "bully beef" and hardtack. It had to be pure hell.
I have often thought that those who fought in the trenches of WW1 had to endure some of the worst conditions ever suffered in battle. The sheer volume of ordinance and the condition of life of the trenches must have been unimaginable. An absolute meat grinder.