I have more numbers burned into my memory.
Horrific numbers, staggering numbers like 1000 cemeteries, 750,000 men, 500,000 from the common-wealth (200,000 killed in Belgium, 300,000 killed in France). Of those 500,000 killed, 300,000 were never recovered and remain to -day buried under the soils of France.
Everywhere we go there are members of our tour who search for shrapnel and bits of metal. The fields around us are full of the stuff.
We saw a movie today and another number was 4000, the number of men killed every day for a month during the battle for Arras. Unimaginable.
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