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Old 22nd Oct 2015, 18:17
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Danny42C
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Lest we Forget.

Fionn101 (your #7541),

"Moved by a wall engraved with the names of thousands of missing soldiers" (Walter Cronkike)...makes me think of another wall tablet which touched me. Some years ago, I went into a little old church in Falaise (Normandy).

It was completely deserted, but on one wall there was a small commemorative plaque recording the names of 300 townfolk: men, women and children, civilians who had died in the crossfire of the '44 Liberation.

This pales in comparison with the thousands of non-combatants also killed in France at that time. I believe the logical French bear us no grudge. C'était la guerre - it was inevitable.

Danny.

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