It's that time of year again. I was browsing through my photographs of Belgium and France earlier today, and came across this beauty. Tyne Cot Cemetery. It is impossible to even begin trying to imagine what these brave men went through to ensure that I am able to air my views on this blog today. When I visit these war graves and monuments my pride is overtaken by a sense of interminable sorrow at the complete waste of life that was The Great War, and every other war before and since.
I'm not sure if these men would have fought were they to know what this country would become, but their courage in the face of impossible odds should never be forgotten, nor taken for granted. Along with their present day counterparts, they deserve nothing other than our complete respect and gratitude for putting their lives on the line for the ideals that each of us hold so dear.
We will remember them.
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