Nice video. It's easier to remember a war from 100 years ago than to do something about the wars today, I guess. Why were there no Belgians included in this video?
By the way, you can visit the war graves and a lot of interesting museums in the western part of Flanders about WWI. Farmers still find bombs and weapons, occasionally they also find human remains or personal belongings from soldiers from WWI.
Too bad people didn't learn from those conflicts and war is still very much around us.
I noticed too that the war was very present there when I was in Flanders in summer, and what I read about the damage done was horrifying. Normally, I feel a bit nervous about being German abroad because of WWII, and here of course the memory of WWI is mostly covered by the events that followed. But there, WWI was still very present.
Perhaps the thing I read that drove the terror of that war home especially is a line from the preface to the Lord of the Rings, where Tolkien explains that it's not an allegory for anything, but that certainly his experiences influenced him. That one sentence... "By 1918, all but one of my close friends were dead." It's incredibly hard to understand.
And then of course, only twenty-one years later, a great number of people thought it was the best idea ever to do it all over again, only worse.
It always very present in that part of the country but it being 100 years ago, there are going to be countless events between now and 2018 about WWI. People there would love to see more German tourists. Just this week I read an article in the paper about a German class that visited the museum in Ieper and the teacher said that that war is indeed a bit forgotten because of the horrors that followed. Which is a bit sad because it massively influenced the events that followed, up until today. My friends and me went on a weekend there and we visited the Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof in Vladslo where over 25000 soldiers are buried, we all found it very moving.
I have no idea why after millions and millions of people died in 2 insane wars people still not have found a way to live in peace together. And looking at the news today, we are very far away from world peace.
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<.< seriously. I think the Christmas Truce is such a powerful story about people being people and that in the end we're all just humans but
The icky taste in my mouth will not go away by one good gesture.
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Why were there no Belgians included in this video?
By the way, you can visit the war graves and a lot of interesting museums in the western part of Flanders about WWI.
Farmers still find bombs and weapons, occasionally they also find human remains or personal belongings from soldiers from WWI.
Too bad people didn't learn from those conflicts and war is still very much around us.
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Perhaps the thing I read that drove the terror of that war home especially is a line from the preface to the Lord of the Rings, where Tolkien explains that it's not an allegory for anything, but that certainly his experiences influenced him. That one sentence... "By 1918, all but one of my close friends were dead." It's incredibly hard to understand.
And then of course, only twenty-one years later, a great number of people thought it was the best idea ever to do it all over again, only worse.
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People there would love to see more German tourists. Just this week I read an article in the paper about a German class that visited the museum in Ieper and the teacher said that that war is indeed a bit forgotten because of the horrors that followed. Which is a bit sad because it massively influenced the events that followed, up until today.
My friends and me went on a weekend there and we visited the Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof in Vladslo where over 25000 soldiers are buried, we all found it very moving.
I have no idea why after millions and millions of people died in 2 insane wars people still not have found a way to live in peace together. And looking at the news today, we are very far away from world peace.
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