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Man,the beach should be preserved, wheres save our history when you need them? The marshes are a natural habitat, for animals, and should not be removed just so we can build houses on, if we didnt do anything to the beach after WW2, i BET IT WOULD LOOK the same, with few differences and changes in the terrain. Peolpe are destroying this world.

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I know, that's what I exactly meant in post abouve you.
Though we can't blame people for making more people who need new places to live and work, it's kinds natural thing... try telling them to stop.:D

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Actually, I belong to the Civil War Preservation Trust, and recently, there was a move by the casino companies to build a CASINO on Cemetary Hill...where heavy fighting took place during all 3 days of the battle. Luckly, we were able to stop it, by buying up the land...but that was bad.

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Ignorant moneymakers, nothing more what I can say.
Caen administration also wanted to move the Pegasus bridge in pices to some museum and built a new bridge with bigger road there, hopefully they didn't managedto do this.

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Really :rolleyes: . I think we should be slightly more concerned with deforestation of the Amazon Basin and the island of Borneo than a slight change of a beach, probably a scheme to prevent land erosion. If we were to preserve every single battlefield then you can say goodbye to alot of cities. Why are we building up London! Thousands of people died there when Boadicea pillaged Londinium in the 1st century - surely we should 'respect' their deaths by leaving the entire London area undeveloped. Here ends my rant.

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Remember that ww2 was the biggest war and case of the allied invasion, though political as always, also had good purpose of helping (alot) in defeating Naizs in Europe. And the invasion in Normandy was a unique event wich will never happen again. It was the last time when so many units could take part in such big battle before the atomic bomb was invented. So it's a bit more important.

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Europe is the bloodiest battlefield.
All the piece of land have history of war or massacre .
Do you think after the ww1 , battlefields were kept intact ? no because it was impossible , we would had to close 3 departement (1 quarter of france).
Now people cultivate these lands.

European land was fed by soldier body, all the rivers with their blood.

It would be stupid to stop doing something on these piece of land because soldier are dead there. History is the past , we are living in the present and prepare the future.

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Well said.
As much as I would love to have all historical places untouched, you have to be rational. If we were to ban construction on all places around the world were battles had been fought we wouldn't be able to expand much more. Actually, we would probably have to tear down most of the cities.

There are of course exceptions. I wouldn't want to see the normandie beaches turned into some cheap sunbathing beaches. I also highly doubt that there ever will be any construction where the extermination/concentration camps where or still are.

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200 made in total beginning in 1945 IIRC, plus only a few MP43/44's delivered to the western front in early 1944, next delivery of MP's were in October of 1944.

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were just talkin about keeping OMAHA BEACH preserved, not the WHOLE of fuking france!
just put a belt (not a leather belt) around certian areas or even the entire of omaha beach to keep it preserved, i mean, its better to show our children what history was like in the fleash and concrete rather than showing them in books and pictures!