11th November also marks the end of World War One and ceremonies will be held at cenotaphs (monuments aux morts) throughout our towns and villages today. Here in Varen the main ceremony is at noon, though earlier in outlying monuments in the commune. All the local memorials have the names of villagers who fell and the lists of young men from the same families are always moving.
In these difficult times the families and veterans from later conflicts (no poilus survive now) will gather to remember the sacrifices made for the freedoms we seem to be so ready to throw away.
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