Good news indeed, as this is on my doorstep. I have enough with military jets going over the house!
I would say to our US buddies that this plan to build an airport DID NOT have the support of the average French person, who was totally against it. It was a decision of the PREVIOUS French government, which is now no longer in power.
Some of the casualty figures above are somewhat exageratted. The British Army lost around 450,000 on the Somme in 1916 (killed, wounded and missing), with the Germans about the same.
Interesting enough, the majority of the graves that would have been moved were in fact German .
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