WW1 1914-1918 Cemetery, IN Ypers-Lepers Belgium - Page 1

Yesterday My Brother and our elder Sister who is staying with us on Holiday went with two Belgian Friends to the WW1 Cemetery in Flanders Fields, Passchendaele It was A really beautiful Place to see. In this Cemetery one of over one hundred in that Area of Flanders, In this Conflict 60.000.000 Men were Mobilized, and 10.000.000 lost there lives In these Cemeteries Lay a great many Brave Soldiers Most from the Regiments of the British Armies But also from Canada, USA Australia France and German etc
Steve1

Very beautiful, still after all these years. The respect is evident for all the brave, sacrificed lives. 

Another Senseless War.  WW1  Was supposedly to be the war to end all wars....so much for that.
10 million died on a lie.  It accomplished nothing.


"Why 4 great powers should fight over Serbia,  no fellow can understand."
-John Burns, working class member of Britain's Liberal government, July 27, 1914


"What our sword has won in half a year our sword must guard for half a century."
- Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, commander German Army, after the German Victory in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. (In looking at the causes of a war one generally goes back to the previous war.)


"I am fed up with war and the clamor for war and with the perennial armaments. It is high time that the great nations calmed down again and occupied themselves with peaceful pursuits, or there will be an explosion which no one desires and which will be to the detriment of all."
- German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, June 1913

"Israel won the war (WWI); we made it; we thrived on it; we profited from it. It was our supreme revenge on Christianity."
(The Jewish Ambassador from Austria to London, Count Mensdorf, 1918).

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. Quote mark
US  novelist and WW1 veteran Ernest Hemingway, in 'A Farewell to Arms', 1929

Thanks for the pics. They were nice. Too bad someone has to post a nutty response.

I wonder Uglydog if your one of those who stand on the side of the road and picket soldiers as they drive by? Nice to be able to spew all this out why there are people out fighting for YOUR freedom of speech.

I have been there... Very beautiful and thought provoking place. Thank you for sharing the pictures.

Uglydog
I know all about this War so i do not need you to preach to me or others about it, The Pic.s were never put on this Forum for any reason other to show how the Past fallen are looked after, thought about still and respected  
If the Guys want to  know what happened i can put it in a more sensitive manner, as in story telling
I know a very dear friend of mine who was in The Battle of the Somme, He got injured, got put right and then got a second Bullet which stopped him and he came home, He would not really talk about it only in bits over the great many  years i knew him he kept it mostly to himself,
However he was as much and more a Father to me that could be expected, and when i too went to do my duty It was nearly the end of him, However i was lucky and i too came home He greeted me with I have been waiting for you, now i can go happy, 2 months later the Old Fellow died, His last words did not ring home to me until after he died,
A few bits he did tell me are not for this Forum but the story can be told in a different way, But really what is there to say except that they did there duty without thought for themselves, and to make the world a better place for there families and for those yet to be born,
Just as the Guys from The USA and the UK etc are doing now in different places throughout the World,
We simply do our Duty, and Uglydog it is the thought of what we left behind that kept us, and still keeps the ones now in conflict going forwards
Yes, they will never be forgotten
Steve1