Menin Gate ceremony touching daily reminder of those who fought and died for nation
The world is very different than it was a century ago, and it is almost inconceivable that any Western nation today would put millions of men into the field to be slaughtered in wholesale, with tens of thousands of the dead so mangled that they could not
Every evening at sunset, the buglers of the fire department of Ypres, Belgium stage a Last Post ceremony. Attended by up to 3,000 people, the ceremony, regularly run since 1928 (except for the regrettable hiatus from 1940 to 1944 when the Nazis occupied Belgium), takes place at the Menin Gate, th...
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