One of the best times I had in the military was going to Verdun and visiting the Le Mémorial de Verdun, amazing how the bottom is filled with skeletal remains with windows to view of the unnamed soldiers just thrown under there, just piles and piles under the memorial. Some WWI bunker where you couldn’t step off the paths of you may accidentally step on an old chemical gas artillery shell. The Bayonet Trench war memorial, however, an unusual memorial.
It indeed honours the memory the French soldiers, who were buried alive in their trench after a shell explosion during the Battle of Verdun on June 12, 1916.
Le Mémorial de Verdun And bayonet trench were very somber places.
the Maginot Line bunkers of WWII were fascinating and the tours were amazing, self contained cities inside mountains.
And the local wine we got for free from the bars was amazing.
130,000+ French and German soldiers buried underneath, with viewing windows, farmers and tourists still find bones and if dna can’t match them to family they’re put under the memorial.
https://2or3lines.blogspot.com/2018/08/alice-in-chains-them-bones-1992.html?m=1
Douaumont Ossuary
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