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Ieper Warnings or Dangers

He's looking pretty angry - Ieper
He's looking pretty angry
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Beware of the Ypres wildlfe
Beware of the Ypres wildlife . . .

No, No, this is not a joke . . .

Especially when you are walking around the Ramparts.

At certain places there are Gooses. And if you come too close they might attack.

When their neck comes upright and they start kind of blowing with open snout, that is the sign to step back.

They might be pretty aggressive especially in the period that they have little ones (what is very natural of course.

Not that it is that dangerous for an adult, but little children might be frightened.

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Getting the wrong idea
Too many people visit the battlefields with a one-sided view of the horror and sacrifice. Poor Tommy! Lions led by Donkeys! Needless slaughter! The best of British! The Lost Generation! The reality must be different. No-one could have stood the current view of the horror of the war. Tommy swore, Tommy f****d, Tommy drank, Tommy ran away, Tommy murdered his opponent in cold blood and there were surely as many sinners than saints. If you read enough the horror of a bombardment or attack is matched by the marvel of survival and a sublime joy of a simple pleasure if they were alive. Don't just think of them as cannon fodder but try to understand that for all the awfulness there was a comradeship and a level of enjoyment (if that is the right word) that we fail to comprehend nearly 100 years later. Try to picture the Army in a different perspective to the current philosophy of everyone getting killed and remember that in the words of Dickens it wasn't only the worst of times but it was also strangely the best of times. Hard to believe but if not they would have surely all packed it in by 1915. The Great War is a complex story and there is a danger we see it from the wrong viewpoint.

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