It is the day before All Souls Day, and it seems appropriate today that we join friends and family as they visit the graves of their loved ones, for we will visit a couple of the many WWI cemeteries that dot this part of the world and pay homage on this All Saints Day. It is also Hallowe’en, or Hallows Day, which is not celebrated in Europe. The French, in particular, hate and shun it, and here in Belgium, we see only the odd reference to it. “In Flanders Fields” We start our day in the town of Ypres, or
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It is the day before All Souls Day, and it seems appropriate today that we join friends and family as they visit the graves of their loved ones, for we will visit a couple of the many WWI cemeteries that dot this part of the world and pay homage on this All Saints Day. It is also Hallowe’en, or Hallows Day, which is not celebrated in Europe. The French, in particular, hate and shun it, and here in Belgium, we see only the odd reference to it. “In Flanders Fields” We start our day in the town of Ypres, or […]

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