Bodies of WWI Soldiers Found in Glacier

ScoobMaster

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ROME (Reuters) - The bodies of three Austrian soldiers killed in World War One have been found frozen and almost perfectly preserved in an Italian Alpine glacier.

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K1052

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Wow.

Not suprising though, there are bodies and munitions littered across Europe from the last two world wars.
 

edro

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Wow... that would be sweet! I wonder if they have dog tags and if they can contact the families... That would be amazing to go see your great great grandfather in a funeral, with his uniform still on...
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: edro13
Wow... that would be sweet! I wonder if they have dog tags and if they can contact the families... That would be amazing to go see your great great grandfather in a funeral, with his uniform still on...
I question your use of the word "sweet!"

Sweet! might be better used to describe finding $20 on the sidewalk or getting a BJ in a movie theater.

Finding the dessicated corpse of a man listed as KIA/MIA almost 100 years ago somehow is a bit more serious that the word "sweet!" would imply...

That said, Sweet find! I got dibs on the jackboots!
 

UNCjigga

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Cool pics? Hello? They think they were probably killed by a grenade?? GRENADE?? I don't wanna see pics of that (I know they're not gibbed beyond all recognition like in a video game but still, that's gonna leave a mark!)