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EN – I don’t think they feel as if we failed them, the 54.000 souls whose names are engraved at the Menin Gate. I guess they are quite surprised, really. […]
EN – I don’t think they feel as if we failed them, the 54.000 souls whose names are engraved at the Menin Gate. I guess they are quite surprised, really. […]
EN – April 22, 2015: one hundred years after the first gas attack in history we had wreaths in Boezinge near Ypres, and at the Brooding Soldier in Langemark. A […]
“Not what is counted, no, what is recounted is remembered” (Gunter Grass) EN – The number of the fallen. The number of the missing. The number of the graveyards. The […]
EN – Don’t stay in Ypres. Do visit this tranquil and welcoming town, do visit its impressive In Flanders Fields Museum. But then, if you possibly can, put on your […]
EN – Some images make you stop in your tracks to take a better look. I could not just walk past this painting, of which I discovered a reproduction in […]