i am from Ypres, all i can say is that some of the nastiest things happend in my home town, for 4 years straight it was hell on earth, so this hating thing does not surprise me
beeing ruffed up by the enemy as a POW is minor compared to beeing gassed by the enemy , or shot for refusing charge , even if the refusee was severely shellshocked...
and there was plenty of cause for suffering from Shellshock, no doubt about that
i was born and raised on fertile grounds, fertile because of all the corpses buried in it. if anybody refers to the Ypres Salient , it better be used in a pascifist way, cause that's the only lesson that can be learned from the horrors that occured in my town.
now have a look at Ypres, i can see my old house in this picture
or at least the hole in the ground where it was later rebuilt
every day , at 20h00 , the local firebrigade plays the Last Post on the bugle, under the Menin Gate
lest we never forget
