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This year and the next four years events and commemorative ceremonies will be held to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. This war had a profound impact on the history of the whole world. And still very tangible today: Flanders, Belgium - where I live - was part of the Western Frontline and 96 Years after the war ended about 250 ton of non exploded ammunition is still found every year. About 10 ton of that ammunition is toxic. Hundreds of
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can be found allover the country. In some places the craters, trenches, bunkers... are still there, untouched. And since the end of WW I the Last Post - the traditional final salute to the fallen - has been played every single day (!) near the Menin Gate (Ypres) by the buglers of the Last Post Association in honour of the memory of the soldiers of the former British Empire and its allies, who died in the Ypres Salient during the First World War. It's their intention to maintain this daily act of homage in perpetuity.
CANADIANS at The Last Post Ceremony on May 3rd, 2010 at Menin Gate, Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, with thousands of high school students in attendance.
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Toxic ammunition ready to be destroyed in the CDD (Contained Detonating Chamber) - DOVO - Belgian army
To honour the fallen and do my part in keeping the memory of this madness alive I was thinking about making an 'On this day'-thread. But since there will be more then enough websites and books available this year, some stories and remarkable events will do the trick. Feel free to post your own. But please don't turn this into a chauvinistic battle of what country was better then another.
CANADIANS at The Last Post Ceremony on May 3rd, 2010 at Menin Gate, Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, with thousands of high school students in attendance.
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Toxic ammunition ready to be destroyed in the CDD (Contained Detonating Chamber) - DOVO - Belgian army
To honour the fallen and do my part in keeping the memory of this madness alive I was thinking about making an 'On this day'-thread. But since there will be more then enough websites and books available this year, some stories and remarkable events will do the trick. Feel free to post your own. But please don't turn this into a chauvinistic battle of what country was better then another.
