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Originally Posted by Grumpy

The Menin Gate service is one of the most moving moments linked to WW1 I have experienced. Whilst exploring the Ypres Salient over the past 3years, I have watched the ceremony several times. Each time when the last post is played, you cannot help but be emotional.

I agree, it is hard not to be moved by the nightly ceremony at the Gate but also by the fact that on the memorial itself there is hardly a flat surface without a name remembered in stone.



I went to Ypres a few years ago on my way back from the Netherlands after visiting my Uncles' grave in Mierlo War Cemetery- If you look closely you'll see on the grass in front of each grave is a single Iris flower laid there by the children of Mierlo in a ceremony a few days before my visit- each of the 665 graves there had a flower to remember them and their sacrifice.