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Originally Posted by Ed
A few years ago we were in the Loire valley - it was o boring that we came home early but via Amiens and had a look at the battlefields. It's truly shocking. War memorials and cemeteries are all over - often small little fields with a few graves, sometimes far bigger, and all immaculately tended, in many cases by the descendants of the farmers who owned the firelds, and who are still immensely grateful - what a shocking waste of human life.
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I've yet to meet anyone who is not moved by the war cemetries of Belgium and France. The sheer scale of the slaughter is beyond our comprehension.
I visited the Menin Gate at Ypres, which has the names of 54,896 men that died during WW1 in that area and have no known grave. The French are still grateful for the sacrifice of so many and close the gate every night at 8.00 pm while buglers sound The Last Post. It was a humbling experience to be there.