oddone: Here is an icebreaker with your g/f parents. Ask them why it is that US taxdollars have to pay for the maintenance and upkeep of the cemetaries where all the GI's are buried in France (Colville sur Mer et al.) One would have thought that LaFrance would be doing this gratis since the GI's freed them from the Nazis. That should get a dialog going. Donerail