There are still sites in France where it is too dangerous to go due to unexplored old munitions. Many who went to fight died quickly in large numbers, and are still in those buried trenches. The scale of suffering and loss of life is hard to imagine even though the World Wars were both in my grandparents’ and parents’ generation. While we have fewer physical reminders here (we don’t routinely find unexploded bombs during city construction, for example), we need to keep the memory alive so that it doesn’t happen again.
The documentary “The Danger Tree” is to be recommended here.
There are still sites in France where it is too dangerous to go due to unexplored old munitions. Many who went to fight died quickly in large numbers, and are still in those buried trenches. The scale of suffering and loss of life is hard to imagine even though the World Wars were both in my grandparents’ and parents’ generation. While we have fewer physical reminders here (we don’t routinely find unexploded bombs during city construction, for example), we need to keep the memory alive so that it doesn’t happen again.