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Originally posted by Kirk911SC
I can't even begin to imagine what it was like there.........
Kirk
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i wholeheartedly recommend visiting Ypres,not for spending your bucks in our businesses, couldn't care less about that
but to visit the Museum, the memorials, Hill 60 with it's cratered landscape, the Menin Gate and the Last Post, and the graves , both those from Allies, and from Axis( in fact the German cemetery is incredibly moving),
every world leader, should visit Ypres (amongst some other places like Hiroshima)
witness what happens if Leadership is careless and plays with lives, what happens if men die , because of the ego others...
people , who are 100% sure they are right
nearly 90 years later, all that's left is the memorials, and the ammo and corpses that still get discovered and dug up...
those who thought they were right are gone as well, and their righteousness is shattered by the cold hard reality
there are no winners, just loosers, doesn't matter what side anybody was on , in the end, they died in veign, thinking they fought the war, to end all wars,
the terrible truth was that it wasn't so, and in fact the Armistice itself, the treaty of Versailles fed Hitlers ideology, and in turn caused WW2
i used to live right next to Lindenhoek cemetery in Kemmel
about 15 Canucks buried just 10 meter from my bedroom...
also about 300 other known soldiers from various nationalities and another 67 John Doe's...