A weekend for Legends – the Ypres Salient

hang the expense · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:29 pm

Very,very moving.

kenair · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:21 pm

great pics, thanks for sharing!

Manonthefence · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:35 am

Holedigger wrote:

Thanks for the photos, thoughts and tour. I've been through Arlington and it has that same, "hallowed ground" feel to it. When you see the row after row, name after name, thousands upon thousands, it really hits home what the place is all about.

Chris

I have visited Madingley a number of times and its always a moving experience. But nothing to match this.

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:05 am

Excellant photo tour! Thanks for taking the time to post this. For those of us that get the Military Ch. keep an eye out for a show called, "Digging up the Trenches" Its a fasinating look at the opposing trenches dug up by a group of historians just outside of Ypres. Amazing the history they uncovered a few feet below the surface.

Manonthefence · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:27 pm

Thanks Pat

The whole place because asea of mud into which, on occasion, whole carriages including the horses, disappeared. I have a feeling my relative on the Menin Gate became fertiliser when he went missing.

Hal B · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:10 pm

Thanks for posting this! Too often, we forget that WWI set the stage for what would happen 21 years later...

Django · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:59 pm

Thanks for sharing.

michaelharadon · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:38 am

That we might some day honor the living as much as we do when they are dead.

snj5 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:46 pm

Wonderful.
Many thanks for sharing.

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