Hi
I don't really think that this commemoration is meant to be treated as a 'festive event'. On the contrary, I look at it as a memorial service, a tribute to the death of a generation and meant to portray the futility of killing each other for an ideal. Verdun was just one in the list of charnel houses that comprised the Western Front. We look upon WW1 with different eyes - we have the benefit of belonging to a generation that wasn't conditioned by national hysterical patriotism. Thanks no doubt to the lamentations that came later, when each country counted its dead.
GTB
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