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IcyPeas

(21,855 posts) Fri Nov 13, 2020, 04:32 PM Nov 2020

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Europe's Landscape Is Still Scarred by World War I (Photographs)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/europe-landscape-still-scarred-world-war-i-180951430/

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Europe's Landscape Is Still Scarred by World War I (Photographs) (Original Post) IcyPeas Nov 2020 OP

I took this photo at Douamont, across from the Ossuary in Verdun. More than 100 years later... CurtEastPoint Nov 2020 #1

This is so tragic. Mother Earth carrying the scars for all of our fighting. BComplex Nov 2020 #2

There are still Red Zones in France that you can't visit. Lochloosa Nov 2020 #3

CurtEastPoint

(18,634 posts)

1. I took this photo at Douamont, across from the Ossuary in Verdun. More than 100 years later...

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Fri Nov 13, 2020, 04:35 PM

Nov 2020

the scars are still there.

BComplex

(8,029 posts)

2. This is so tragic. Mother Earth carrying the scars for all of our fighting.

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Fri Nov 13, 2020, 04:39 PM

Nov 2020

Lochloosa

(16,061 posts)

3. There are still Red Zones in France that you can't visit.

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Fri Nov 13, 2020, 04:53 PM

Nov 2020

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/26/the-real-no-go-zone-of-france-a-forbidden-no-mans-land-poisoned-by-war/

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