Today is Remembrance Sunday and many people will be paying tribute to those that died during the two “great” wars and many other conflicts. The media, newspapers and television, are full of articles and programmes looking back at the famous battles and talking to survivors.
But, please, follow the link below for a slightly different look at the war years and the impact that they had on communities. There you can read about villages that watched their menfolk march off to war and were lucky enough to see all of them return. It’s an amazing story which shows the arbitrary nature of war.
As an aside to this article is a short mention of the French village, Thierville, which has not suffered a single fatality in any of France’s last five wars. That is the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, World Wars I and II, Indochina, and Algeria. A truly unique claim.
Given the lives lost during all those wars, then to be able to witness the return of all your menfolk, that is truly something for which to be thankful.
BBC News – Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars.
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