"A headlamp cuts through the darkness of a rough-hewn passage 100 feet underground to reveal an inscription," says James Cockburn. He said the writing looks so pristine that it looks as if it could have been written yesterday, but the date April 1, 1917 proves it to be during the horrors of WWl. "It shows how soldiers form a sense of place and an understanding of their role in a harsh and hostile environment," says historian Ross Wilson. The location on the graffiti to the Somme battlefields, where more than one million men were killed or wounded, contributes to the discoveries importance.
It's really awesome that they found this because anything that we find from our history, gets us that much closer to understanding what really happened and what people went through during the time. In school, we mostly learn about the events and important people that take place in our history, but we don't dig that deep into what specific problems people went through, and the magnitude of there suffering. Finding this tells us more about what happened behind the scenes of the war about the common folk that we don't get to learn about during school.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/05/newly-discovered-wwi-graffiti-sheds-light-on-soldiers-experience/?intcmp=HPBucket
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