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re: No other country has a cemetery here, but we have cemeteries there.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:17 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:17 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Bucket list of mine is the war cemeteries and battlefields of France and Belgium from the Western Front of WWI.
my list includes seeing the changing of the colors at Lafayette’s tomb in Paris. I think it’s important to continue rituals like that for the West’s collective sense of itself
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Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:32 pm to WinnPtiger
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my list includes seeing the changing of the colors at Lafayette’s tomb in Paris. I think it’s important to continue rituals like that for the West’s collective sense of itself
At the Somme, you can trace the old trench lines by the cemeteries dotting the farmland. Some have just a few soldiers, others tens of thousands.
I have a bizarre, dark fixation with WWI.
Posted on 4/17/24 at 4:33 pm to WinnPtiger
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my list includes seeing the changing of the colors at Lafayette’s tomb in Paris. I think it’s important to continue rituals like that for the West’s collective sense of itself
Same.
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On 4 July 1917, three months after the United States entered World War I on the side of France and her Allies, U.S. Army Colonel Charles E. Stanton visited the General's tomb. Col. Stanton placed an American flag, uttering the famous phrase: "Lafayette, we are here."
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America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.
This post was edited on 4/17/24 at 4:35 pm
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