Ieper was a city offten fought around in World War I. They have the Menin Gate, a memorial with the names of all British Commonwealth soldiers (except Newfoundland) who died in the Iepers Salient before August 16 1917 and who have no known grave. As graves are found the names are removed.
Every night at 8pm a ceromony, the Last Post, is sounded. During WWII it was stopped by occupying Germans but was promptly resumed on the evening of thier liberation.
"Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?"
-- Siegfried Sassoon, On Passing the Menin Gate
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What sobering photos. WWI and WWII history is so close at hand.
Grandma Kathy's great uncle, Jesse Mendenhall, died fighting in France in WWI. I don't know where he was buried. I wonder if she knows.
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