07-15-2008, 06:04 PM
I just came across this article while searching for something else.
Officials fell trees inscribed by US soldiers who fought for France
Historians hope to save the few remaining trees after 150 were felled
07-15-2008, 07:50 PM
07-20-2008, 09:10 AM
09-08-2008, 10:09 AM
It's not the trees which are dangerous, it is cars and their drivers. The fools who to rolled to 130 instead of 90 there are built in...
To put crash barriers would have been more suited (but good, a blow of chain saw costs certainly cheaper). Sorry but, I find it really disgusting to have slaughtered all these trees, all these souvenirs. souvenirs which do not have no price! £ $ ù ? * § bureaucrats. I am really angry! 
I have to find this link and these photos :
http://www.skylighters.org/special/cigcamps/cmp20000.html
Vee
09-08-2008, 10:40 AM
Verow, this is so typical of bureaucracy! Instead of addressing the problem (in this case - stupid drivers), they take the easy way out and cut down the trees! I do not blame you for your anger. I think this angers all of us. People are SO short-sighted. They just see today. They do not look at the history, nor do they look at the future. Disturbing, indeed! 
09-09-2008, 10:34 PM
09-09-2008, 10:47 PM
09-11-2008, 05:38 AM
If the trees have already been felled, would it not have been possible to preserve the trunks and use them in
a memorial?
Bureaucratic vandalism I call it!
Colin. 
09-11-2008, 08:33 AM