We should all see our memorials and cenotaphs, at least once in our lifetime.

Originally posted on If It Happened Yesterday, It's History:

From an Australian perspective, in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War on 11th November 1918, it is envisaged that the numbers of visitors to the First World War battlefields will reach record numbers. Sacred war grave and sites across Europe in particularly Flanders will be somber and emotional. In Belgium, where I have recently been preoccupied in my research for my ambitious blog series, covering the...