Furry and dizzy ideas, comments & general craziness while dining at the restaurant at the end of the universe
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
In 1918, hundreds of square kilometres in northern France looked like this. No, in fact, much worse, as the green grass was then mud and filth. All you could see were trenches and bomb craters after the bloody Battle of the Somme which lasted months : from the 1st July 1916 to the 18th November 1916.
Today it is a non-descript area in the North of France with many maize and potato fields. And many soldiers' cemeteries. Take any small road, far from the motorway and you will be shocked at the number of cemeteries and white graves. And these are only the soldiers they could bury. Many others lay somewhere there, without grave to remember their names. If any person with any desire of war were to be made to dig every single grave I saw in the Somme, I bet they would not seek war ever again.
En 1918, cientos de kilometros en el norte de Francia tenian este aspecto. O mejor dicho, peor que esto. Substituid la bonita hierba verde por fango y porqueria. Todo lo que se veia eran rincheras y crateres causados por la explosion de las bombas lanzadas por ambos bandos, desde que tuvo lugar la larguisima Batalla del Somme que duro del 1 de Julio al 18 de Noviembre de 1916. Hoy en dia es una zona sin mucha distincion en el Norte de Francia. Con somnolientos pueblecitos y campos de maiz y patatas. Y cementerios de soldados. Tomad cualquier carretera comarcal, dejando atras la autopista, y os sorprendera ver la cantidad de cementerios militares de blancas lapidas que existen en la zona. Y estos son los soldados a los que pudieron enterrar decentemente. Cuantos otros hay sin identificar, enterrados sin lapida que les recuerde! A los amantes de la guerra, aquellos que desean guerra a toda costa, si a cualquiera de estos se les obligara a cavar todas las tumbas que he visto en la zona del Somme, bien rapido se les pasarian las ansias guerreras!
The weather today:
Sunny
22C
UV Index:3 Moderate
Wind: From the East Southeast at 7 mph
Dew Point: 16C
Humidity: 69%
Visibility: Unlimited
Barometer: 1,007.5 mb
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