I'm never really sure why Australians are digging up Flammel, in France, to find the remains of those soldiers whose bodies were never found.
Why? If you got all the bones, from the mass grave and piled them up, the relatives would never be able to pick out their relatives. Relatives who could have only known of their soldier relative by family stories.
Is it another twist of religion?
Who, exactly, are they doing it for? I heard one of the relatives say, I've walked in Uncle Harry's foot steps for three days, I've never felt closer to him. Never felt closer to someone who was well dead before he was born?
There is no benefit to be gained by digging up soldiers bones, let's face it, one hundred years later.
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