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Didn't someone here lately claim the world was becoming more violent? Here
are two excerpts from an article. It's interesting in any case, but the
statistics make more recent violence seem minute.



-=-Lewis' P-51 fighter was shot down Sept. 11, 1944, over eastern Germany
during a fierce air battle in which 57 U.S. aircraft were lost. Lewis' plane was
last seen nose-diving into a forest.
A German naturalist, Adelbert Wolf, found Lewis' wreckage and buried what
remains he could find in a field near Oberhof. Wolf marked the grave with a cross
and tended it for decades.

-=-About a decade before the Berlin Wall fell, Wolf notified an American
about the grave, and a U.S. delegation visited the site but was not permitted by
the Communist government to exhume the remains. -=-. . . .

-=-About 78,000 soldiers are still missing in action from World War II, and
about 30 bodies are found, identified and brought home each year. -=-

It's a CNN version of an AP story that was on the Netscape splash page today.
I have no idea whether just everyone can get there, but in case:
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001
%2F20040528%2F2140779621.htm&sc=1110&photoid=20040528TN105

And it's called
Army Pilot Killed in WWII Buried in Okla.
By CLAYTON BELLAMY