
Memorialisation
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Remembrance of the Last Post
In the belgian town of there is a massive stone gate on the menin road, and marked on it are 55 thousand names. School children lay wreaths, assuring the dead that they will be remembered. It started to get used as a piece at funerals, soldiers funerals, probably round te 18 fifties. On the day that polish soldiers liberated ep, the ceremony began again,. Even though there were still battles under way in the town, a large crowd had gathered.
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