Remembrance Day. Lest we forget.

Today in a lot of countries it's Remembrance Day. Today we remember the ending of the Great War or World War I at 11.00 AM 11/11/1918. The war had lasted for 4 years, 3 months and 2 weeks and took the lives of ten's of millions of soldiers and civilians on both sides. It should have been the war to stop all other wars but it wasn't.

This day we remember a generation of young and brave soldiers that died in this war. A lot of them are still missing in combat or are unknown soldiers. The casualties were atrocious because of old infantry tactics being used against concentrated machine guns, pre-sighted artillery, barbed wire, poison gas, etc.

Bomb disposal soldiers and civilians like construction workers and farmers even so long after the Great War has ended still take casualties by unexploded ordnance from that era.

In Flanders Fields (John McCrae 30/11/1872 – 28/01/1918)

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. 

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Last Post Menenpoort Ieper
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