Passchendaele Canadian Memorial — Attraction in Zonnebeke

This was overwhelming - and it is just from one area in a much larger conflict. This is worth a visit for everyone. To gain perspective and to reflect on the cost of war. It’s a topic that is too often discussed online with careless hyperbole and an absence of considered nuance. Conflict may be an unavoidable part of being human, but war - as the most extreme expression of that impulse - should never be a path we choose willingly or lightly. The cost...

WW1 location of great significance and sacrifice. Finally conquering Passendale in the fall of 1917 by the Canadians, at such a tremendous cost of death, missing, wounded and other great sacrifices for all the attacking Allied Forces and defending Germans, to have the Allies decide to give up Passendale in the spring of 2018, when Germany made their last great offensive operation on the Western front, makes you reflect on the...

The largest of the Commonwealth war cemeteries, there's a quiet in the air here that marks the respect for the lives lost during the war. The gardens are beautiful and colourful and extremely well maintained. Walking through the rows of graves here and reading the names on the wall of the soldiers whose grave locations are unknown, is...