Lest we forget

Yesterday was Armistice Day, a national holiday here in France with services of remembrance in all villages. Although the day marks the end of the Great War in 1918 we also remember all who served and died in all conflicts, including WWII. How callous must be those who decided to mark the occasion in a Dordogne village by painting swastikas on the cenotaph.

Cenotaph in St Michel de Double, Dordogne. Photo by Elsa Arnould

France suffered greatly under Nazi occupation and those with sympathies for the occupiers caused great divisions in society. Those same forces are at work today, trying to create hatred and forgetting what those millions died for. Shameful.
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