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09/12/2007, 18:02 Loiseau Joined on 23/08/2004 London/Vendée Posts 896 Re: History of Seven Valleys Here it is, Will! By coincidence, a friend just emailed me the link.  Angela    Report

10/12/2007, 10:52 Pierre ZFP Joined on 12/11/2004 PdC(62)/Luxembourg Posts 1,649 Re: History of Seven Valleys Now here's a sobering bit of research.  Using the previous link to the war memorials I looked up my tiny dot of a hamlet (not big enough to be called a village) and the reading is truly terrible.  9 dead in the Franco-prussian wars and at Galipoli, 37 in WW1 with just 28 distinct surnames, families losing 2 or 3 sons each, and 6 more in WWII and indo-china.  Now at the time of WWI there were fewer than 50 houses (43 if memory serves) which means that nearly every family and nearly every household lost someone, and of course that is the dead, there is no mention of wounded, often serious and mutilating wounds too which severly limited life expectancy, terrible times that must never be repeated. Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me Fool me 3 times and you can see a statistical tendency    Report

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