Re: gift of life

The human condition/life is a 'gift'...

What Happened to Dead Bodies After Big Battles Throughout History?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZq_HjKCRB4


Few comments from under the video:

''Spoke to an old man on my grandfathers ship that was there for D day. His job was to tag bodies and do inventory when he was able. This was in 2010 and the man has tears falling down his face. He said the amount of dead and carnage he saw was still raw 65 years later. I have a feeling it haunted him his whole life. When he told me the story I just let him talk. I didn’t know what to ask because I didn’t want to hurt him anymore. It was tough. God bless that man as he died shortly after our conversation.''

''A macabre but strangely fascinating subject, I was lucky enough to know a veteran who dealt with the dead in Europe after d day, he caught cholera and hepatitis from handling battlefield dead, his worst nightmare though was the recovering of people he had known in life, it sadly haunted him till the day he died. My eternal Respect and hope he peace in passing.''

''My grandfather was at D-Day storming the beach. He never told us anything about it, only that he had served. Later, in his 80s, my uncle took him back to France and they visited the same beach he had stormed. During the tour, the tour guide showed the group the grave markers, to which my grandfather yelled out at her, I dont know who the hell you've got buried up here, but we dug big holes on the beach and just dumped the dead all in. Unless you went and dug them up, the gravestones are a load of crap! He was mean, but honest.''

''Another detail, in Flanders, troops would fall full load off of the duck boards and into the mud, sometimes the men would try to help their stuck buddies and fall in too. They would drown in mud as men marched passed them, oftentimes the soldiers would beg passing troops to shoot them in the head''

''My father served in Italy during WW 2. During his tour of duty, he was briefly assigned "Graves detail". This involved picking up the dead soldiers, collecting their dog tags for identification and loading their bodies on the backs of mules for transport to the rear for a proper burial. The reason mule trains were used is due to the very mountainous terrain in Italy. The roads were impassable by truck so they used mule trains. The mules smelled the death and many times refused to move. It was a horrible, grizzly detail my father couldn't wait to get away from.''

''My father at age 12 had to dig large ditches so those killed in WW 2 could be burried. He was born & raised in Poland. We heard all the horrible war stories as we grew up.''

''One of the frightening things discovered after the fall of the Soviet Union was how often battlefield casualties - Axis and Soviet, were just not recovered. Despite the great memorial of the Mamayev Kurgan at Volgograd (Stalingrad) it was discovered that there were still areas - now forested - that held the bones thousands corpses untouched since 1943....''

''Some of those were secret burials that was part of Stalin's massacre of captured Polish military personnel when he divided up Poland with Hitler. Many millions more were the result of his collectivization policies. It was illegal to write anything about these places until 1991 when Yeltsin exposed them as part of his campaign to unseat Gorbachev. They also released their plans to exterminate the people in three other cities as well as those in Soviet prisons. The coverup is known in the West as the Katyn Lie.''

LIFE TRULY IS A GIFT... in the pea brains of psychopathic cowards... Tweet