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WWI ARCHEOLOGY A MYSTERY POSTCARD FROM FRANCE

Did you ever pull on thread and instead of breaking it off, it just kept unraveling? And the more you pulled, the more you couldn’t stop. A lot of times history is just like that. Instead of finishing something, it just keeps unraveling and you just can’t quit.

Recently, while looking through a stack of old postcards I found one of particular interest. It caught my eye because it was an embossed German postcard, but obviously written by an American soldier. I have always admired the soldiers who served in the U.S. Third Army in the occupation of the German Rhineland from 1918 to

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