Images of the Great War - 100 years ago
A century ago the first World War was approaching its end in very confusing days. The conflict that lasted for 4 years would have cost over 40 million people's lives...not counting the Spanish Flu that would hit the weakened population in 1918.
This weekend there is a lot of memorial services all over the world and this anniversary is well worth spending time on. With so many wars ongoing in the world, with atrocities and attacks to civil populations which truly happened on mass scale for the first time in WWI...we need to learn and keep remembering. No more war, let's never forget...it's been said so many times in the last 100 years and we seem unable to truly learn from it.
I'll watch the historic last post again this weekend, a ceremony that has taken place over 30000 times, each night in Ypres at the Menen Gate at 8 PM (except during WWII). As always, it'll move me and give me chills. It is so powerful.
I'll walk through Leuven again, which was mostly destroyed during WWI in a set fire to punish the civilian population. That was only the start of the war, which would simply destroy every living tree and animal in the west side of Belgium and North of France where the unimaginable horror of the trench war took place for 4 years and took so many lives.
All those images are worth to spend some time on watching. Even though we haven't stopped the wars in the world, let's at least never ever forget, now that our first hand testimonials have almost all disappeared.
This weekend there is a lot of memorial services all over the world and this anniversary is well worth spending time on. With so many wars ongoing in the world, with atrocities and attacks to civil populations which truly happened on mass scale for the first time in WWI...we need to learn and keep remembering. No more war, let's never forget...it's been said so many times in the last 100 years and we seem unable to truly learn from it.
I'll watch the historic last post again this weekend, a ceremony that has taken place over 30000 times, each night in Ypres at the Menen Gate at 8 PM (except during WWII). As always, it'll move me and give me chills. It is so powerful.
I'll walk through Leuven again, which was mostly destroyed during WWI in a set fire to punish the civilian population. That was only the start of the war, which would simply destroy every living tree and animal in the west side of Belgium and North of France where the unimaginable horror of the trench war took place for 4 years and took so many lives.
All those images are worth to spend some time on watching. Even though we haven't stopped the wars in the world, let's at least never ever forget, now that our first hand testimonials have almost all disappeared.
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