Posted on 06/28/2016 11:01:46 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Outrage as thousands of children run over the graves of fallen soldiers from WWI’s Battle Of Verdun in stunt organised by German filmmaker during 100th anniversary commemorations in France
Images of thousands of laughing children jogging through one of the most sacred Great War battlefields in the world have caused outrage.
They were taken on Sunday during commemorations at Verdun - scene of one of the bloodiest battles in military history.
The Battle of Verdun between German and French troops lasted over 300 days, and saw the deaths of more than 300,000 soldiers on both sides in 1916.
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Outraged!
Disgusting. People have no respect anymore, no regard for others.
Someday they will learn - Life has a way of coming full circle.
Sounds like a Mikey Moore stunt.
Most of those “kids” are old enough to know better. If their schools are anything like ours, they aren’t taught much in the way of real history, just the PC version, so most probably know nothing about Verdun or much else related to WW1.
“Disgusting. People have no respect anymore, no regard for others.”
No they don’t. Its all about themselves and their own self-absorption.
Today’s generations could never deal with something as horrible and gallant as the battle of Verdun.
Those POS are not Children by any stretch of the imagination.
My google-fu fails me, but I’m reminded of an older editorial cartoon (memorial day? Veterans day?) showing a couple of kids running and playing in a veteran cemetery, while their younger dad apologizes to an elderly veteran, saying something like “I’m sorry, they don’t know what this place means”, and the veteran replies “That was sort of the idea”.
Some of the “kids” in the pictures look old enough to have fought and died there had this been 1916. Absolutely unconscionable. Winston Churchill’s four volume The World Crisis should be required reading for British, German, French, and American “kids.” WWI isn’t called the apocalypse for nothing.
There is a veterans cemetery near where I live. I visit there often. Sadly, it is necessary to post “No picnicking” signs. Some people have to be told not to let their dog take a dump on a veteran’s grave.
Gettysburg averaged 2,352 dead per day for three days. Verdun averaged roughly half as many dead per day, but it lasted 100 times as long. For anyone to show disrespect on that battlefield should appall all decent people and even some liberals.
The Great War, overall, killed roughly 10,000 men per day, seven days a week, for over four years.
I sort of see where that German film maker was going but should have used maybe a fake cemetery for his video. This was totally wrong.
I wonder what the next war in Europe will look like. I suspect it will be even worse for the obvious demographic reasons.
I’m appalled that this would be done to any veteran’s grave site.
“I sort of see where that German film maker was going but should have used maybe a fake cemetery for his video.”
Yes things are so good in Germany right now with Muslim Rapefugees attacking women and children daily.
Hitler would have put them in the ovens for this but Merkel? She just stands there with her head up her _______.
I worked in Funeral Service for three years, and was taught one does NOT step on a grave. There are certain situations where you have to step on a grave, because of its proximity to another grave you’re preparing, and you always apologise to the person in the grave. Most of the time they understand.
My parents taught me that as respect for the dead. All they have left is the little patch of earth above them.
Back when parents taught respect.
Unfortunately the gallantry of the combatants was exploited tragically and to no particular end. Dying gasp of ancient dynastic warfare giving way to the nightmare of the modern. I have no problem with joy being taken on that sorrow-drenched plot of ground.
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