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Pick of the Day: Great War not forgotten

Published on : 10 November 2010 - 10:19am | By Eric Beauchemin (photo (c) NOS)
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November 11 marks the 92nd anniversary of the end of the First World War. To keep alive memories of the Great War, as it is also known, a Dutchman has set up a museum in a small town in northern France, the site of the biggest US military cemetery in Europe.

The village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon is home to 160 people. It's also the final resting place for 14,000 American and 2,000 German soldiers who fought in WWI. Many of their bodies were never found.

Jean Paul de Vries went camping there as a child and was given a bayonet by the manager of the campsite. The weapon prompted a lifelong fascination with the war, in which his great-grandfather also fought. He eventually settled in Romagne and established a museum dedicated to WW I, with objects that he found on his own property and in the surrounding area. He continues to find new things every day: helmets, shoes, cutlery, weapons, letters, and pictures.

 

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