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Originally Posted by ameridaddy
Is that a panel in the Menin Gate? It's a very, very sobering place.
IIRC, USA had about 2,700 MIA in ten years of fighting in Vietnam. 2,700 MIA is a terrible thing, but Brits, Aussies Kiwis and Indians had about 54,000 MIA during WWI just in the Ypres Salient, never mind the rest of the Western Front and other locales.
What a horror, what a waste, over a bunch of inbred cousins having hissy fits..
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Good eye. Yes, it is.
We stayed in Ypres while exploring the Flanders battlefields and cemeteries. Very impressed by the still large numbers of people that turn out at Menin Gate to pay homage at the nightly "Last Post" ceremony, more than a century after the carnage.
The 54,000 inscribed names of MIA covering the inside and outside of the Menin Gate didn't fit all those missing in Flanders. Another wall of 35,000 MIA names spans the length of nearby Tyne Cot, the worlds largest cemetery of Commonwealth war graves.
The MIA at Tyne Cot:
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