Morning: I have noticed the great concern over archaeological data, graves, bones, etc etc..Why?
Every thing dug out of the ground has a personal history, it belonged to some one and represented part of them and their lives.
Those coins you so proudly show, that hair comb, the pocket knife, watch , are history, perhaps small, but still history. It may have been connected with a murder, war, sickness, or whatever, but one is no more important than the other.
As mentioned in here, every shipwreck, is literally the tomb of someone, yet I have no doubt that anyone in here would love to be in on the financial recovery of whatever it was carrying. You enjoy reading of lost caches, Jesuit mines, Apache loot, etc. all of which generally involved people being enslaved tortured and murdered. I believe that I can safely say that you would happily walk over piles of bones to recover whatever is still hidden beyond, without too much thought on the bones, and why should you? they are no more the person than the hair from that hair cut or an extracted tooth, a bad appendix, a replaced heart, or an amputated limb, etc.
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I am curious as to just where does one draw the line? Naturally a formal grave yard is private property and so should be respected as such, but
I rather imagine that in a few more years there will no longer be a single spot in this earth that doesn't have some remains in it or is associated with death of someone so what do we do then??
As for myself, we often discussed the probability of being killed on some unnamed Pacific Island in the war, many wanted to be returned to the US. I always made them uncomfortable by saying it didn't matter to me one iota. If the particular spot where I was killed warranted me being there, fighting, then it was sufficiently valuable to be buried there, and anyway, I doubted that it would make any knowledgable difference to me or my remsins.
Personally I believe that too much attention has been placed upon remains, even the so called Native People of the Americas - of which I am a small part of - are going over board on this. Look at the legal fight to prevent the study of the remains of what may be a prior race here in the Americas.
I doubt that the individual German had any more to say about his being there than the Russians, or me being on a Pacific Island. He is to be respected in his own right, not his gov't intentions. I believe that Nahabit should continue digging up whatever or wherever he wishes in his search for trophies, whether it is for personal gratification, or Archaeological reasons.
If bones etc are found one may feel reverence, awe, pity, or whatever in these graves of unknowns, but never feel that he is desecrating something that doesn't exist.
The American people are being cushioned too much by the media/gov't against the horrors of war. I believe that they should be shown graphic details and that it should be mandatory to watch just what is involved. How many have seen a disembowelled child screaming as it slowly dies as a casualty of war? I have, and it is not nice. In China I was ordered to witness legal beheadings, again not nice . But in many ways Nahabit is bringing home the results of war to a few viewers, real war, not Tv or movie wars.
So dig away Nahabit and post, post, remember "OUR DUTY IS TO THE LIVING NOT THE DEAD"!
Till Eulenspiegle de La Mancha
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