Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 23:36:22 -0500 Reply-To: H-NET List on German History Sender: H-NET List on German History From: H-GERMAN EDITOR Dan Rogers Subject: Re: The Dead of Wars Submitted by: John Heineman Could I add one of my own impression to [Walter Felscher's] poignant account. My wife and I have often visited the small Bavarian Kurort Bad Kissingen, and always visit a small funeral chapel standing on the site of a battle between Bavarians and Prussians in the war of 1866. Local guide books insist that a Prussian bullet can still be seen lodged in the life-size representation of the Pieta (Vesperbild in German). But our attention is most often directed to a striking (although smaller) monument which stands outside of the chapel/graveyard itself, facing away from the church and overlooking a small pond and park. It is the town monument erected to honor the dead of World War I. It shows a wounded lion, erect, but with its head lifted in pain and its body arched, as if to dislodge the sword which had once protruded from its back. In the '60s, the war memorial was enlarged to include commemorative plaques honoring those citizens of Bad Kissingen who had died in World War II, and the sword was removed. John L. Heineman Boston College .