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Subject: [Leica] Armistice Day and the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize - Philippe
From: j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:28:37 +0100
References: <BLU155-W1F921EB059F8BAAC4ACD48D6E0@phx.gbl>, <8C8B8FE5-7A32-4721-82A7-F55D8EB17FF7@sfr.fr>

Hi Philippe, very interesting evidence of this terrible period. Nice shot of 
this "poilu" statue. Hope you're OK?JM
 > From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:30:55 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Armistice Day and the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize
> 
> Le 11 nov. 12 ? 20:50, Jean-Michel Mertz a ?crit :
> 
> > Yes, this is Veterans' Day and it takes a new meaning in Europe  
> > since the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded not to the European  
> > Union as such but to the efforts Europeans have deployed to put an  
> > end to centuries of warfare and violence. We still call November 11  
> > "Armistice Day" because, for the time being, we want to remember the  
> > suffering, the deaths, both civil and military, and the destruction  
> > that took place during WW1 first between France and Germany and  
> > which then became global. This is why you will come across monuments  
> > like this one everywhere in France even in the tiniest of villages -  
> > here Bruniquel in southern France (d?partement du Tarn). The  
> > monument you see in the two other pictures is a war memorial  
> > dedicated to the millions of people who were killed in WW1, WW2 -  
> > though it all started in 1870 ... 
> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jean-Michel/Armistice+Day/aux+poilus+de+Bruniquel.jpg.html
> >  
> > >                                   
> >
> 
> 
> 
> May I add my monument to yours
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Doulce+France/20080210-P1020188.jpg.html
> 
> Shot at Thiaucourt in Lorraine, not far from Verdun,
> In this area, even the houses remember:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Doulce+France/20080210-P1020169.jpg.html
> 
> OFF stands for officers
> SO   for Non Commisioned Officers
> 
> I remember also seeing reference made to horses in my younger years.
> 
> Amiti?s de Metz
> Philippe
> 
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