Thieves Who Steal Sunken Warships, Right Down to the Bolts

Re:Thieves Who Steal Sunken Warships, Right Down to the Bolts by Nexxxeh on Saturday May 06, 2017 @11:13AM (#14280574)

Long-dead? This was only 75 years ago. My nan could have gone to school with some of the men that were killed on these ships. My nan is alive and well.

These ships are maritime war graves. The remains were of men that weren't vikings or ancient Egyptians. They were our grandparents generation. That's pretty damned recent.

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Re:Thieves Who Steal Sunken Warships, Right Down to the Bolts by jmcdiesel on Sunday May 07, 2017 @10:40AM (#14285678)

Can you find a concrete, non-emotionally biased reason that they should be left alone? They are dead, hey memories live on not in the ship, but in the people who's lives they impacted.

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Re:Thieves Who Steal Sunken Warships, Right Down to the Bolts by Nexxxeh on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:06AM (#14297663)

Is there any concrete non-emotionally biased reason we bother with gravestones? Or do anything ritualistic with our dead? Why we have tombs of the unknown soldier? We are emotional beings.

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