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Originally Posted by svandamme

BY CARL SANDBURG
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.

We went up to Villers Brettoneaux each year for the Anzac Day commemorations, and travelled and stayed in and around the Somme and Piccardy, Ypres whilst we were living in Europe, some of the battlefield are just so stunningly green, the fields are just so fertile from the blood of thousands of young men. Those battlefields have seen the worst of human misery and death. Thousands of young men, I often wonder what the population of Australia would be today if all of those thousands and thousands of young men had not gone to WWI and WWII.

We took our boys with us as well, and they found it so interesting to see the memorials, and the pictures in the small villages of their towns during the wars. Some places were absolutely raised to the ground, but they have been rebuilt, amazing stuff really, the citizens of the area are so friendly towards the Australians, we felt so welcome everywhere we went. Although we had to keep pointing out that we weren't British lol, not much love there for the Brits.