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Originally Posted by b-sound
Pictures taken 12/08/04.
Serre Village nr Albert, North France.
Three Pics of the memorial & one of the Trench Remains
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The memorials are built of NORIS.
For some of us this is not really "history", in the sense that we are detached from it. We knew our grandfathers. Probably, like mine, they didn't talk much about the war. But they went thro' that **** on the Western Front. We should never forget, nor should we let others forget what they did. Unfortunately, the values they fought for, their love of country, their sense of duty and honor are becoming alien to us. Every man that went over the top on July 1, 1916 was a volunteer, every one a hero. Maybe a little corney sounding, but, as Fitzgerald pointed out in "Tender is the Night" - I will paraphrse liberally - we don't have the balls to do what they did.