Modern day look at a WWI battlefield

[flogger]

I toured the Verdun area over ten years ago. It was a very moving experience. Craters all over the landscape with old rutts from trench lines zigzagging around. The Douaumont ossuary was stunning, the place was crowded with visitors but dead silent. There are bombed out fortifications just like "the ant hill" on Paths to Glory.

Thanks for the OP, we need to remember things like this.

[JohnTRourke]

. 600 or 700 years to clean it up? Damn ...

well yeah, but the government is in charge of clean up. Take that out of the equation and it's about 30 days.

[ruthabagah]

I visited the WW1 battlefield as recently as 2013 and they are a a must see/visit place after Normandy. It was a cataclysmic event that was eclisped in our recent memory by WW2.

[HoneyBadger]

Another good photo collage of WWI

http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/century/

This is a much better resource than I had originally posted. Thank you. I added your link to my original post.

[<MADDOG>]

+1

I had the privilege of going on a NCOPD tour of the entire Verdun battle for a week, and that was also one of our stops. The gravity of what it is doesn't hit until you see the tremendous amount of skeletal remains.

I toured the Verdun area over ten years ago. It was a very moving experience. Craters all over the landscape with old rutts from trench lines zigzagging around. The Douaumont ossuary was stunning, the place was crowded with visitors but dead silent. There are bombed out fortifications just like "the ant hill" on Paths to Glory.

Thanks for the OP, we need to remember things like this.

[Squeeze]

Really beautiful. Interesting how much they found during the excavation of the battlefields. Thank you for sharing this.