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So many war graves in and around Ypres, I take some small comfort from the fact that the graves are kept in such good condition and that these awful losses are never forgotten, those thousands of tombstones stand as a reminder of the horror and futility of war.

I've been to Ypres and looked around the huge WW1 museum and been at the Menin Gate for the Last Post ceremony, very moving it is too. Indeed a tragic waste of lives on both sides, the Germans suffered huge casualties too yet the people who start these wars rarely pay the price.