Posted on 05/31/2016 6:23:22 AM PDT by C19fan
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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Contrarian thought. When I’m dead and buried, it think I’d like having jkids playing around my grave.
Stupid twisted artist.
Total ignorance of youth.
Try this at Arlington and see what happens.
Not surprising.
Even here at FR some say “Happy Memorial Day” ...and if another FReeper questions such phraseology, THAT FReeper gets excoriated.
OMG!
What on earth?!?!
How was this ever sanctioned?
I know my Mom would. I think I would also. For about $1400 and have your ashes mixed with clay to cast a large brick sized tombstone. Sounds like a twofer to me. Kids playing on such a brick paved playground would be a threefer.
Ditto.
When I’m dead, feel free to play over my grave, or read, or have a BBQ.
Me too. Figure that someone has died at some point on almost every inch of Earth. Children should be children. Now, If adults were doing it, that’s a different story.
In my hometown cemetery there is a headstone that reads, “Been here and gone. Had a good time.”
Europe sucks. Done for, kaput. I rest my case.
I spent last Thursday and Friday at a veterans cemetery. I tend to agree, even though I don’t think the groundskeeper would.
I wouldn’t be there anyway. Let em play.
I can get if they had them quietly walk from both sides of the actual battlefield and embrace each other midway, hopefully wearing better outfits than they are here, and sing some appropriate song commemorating the battle.
But these kids were literally running over the graves, and trampling plants in front of the crosses!
Some of those gals look mighty well developed for ‘children’. Must be using the same definition that the gun grabbers use.
I agree. I can remember as a kid playing around a town war memorial and being warned off by an old man. We weren’t causing any harm but we were just too young to understand what he was upset about. That doesn’t mean I didn’t eventually figure out his point of view, but I still think we weren’t causing any harm.
I understand your sentiment. What would be more innocent than carefree children playing in the fields? But this but seemed to be an organized political, show-event involving people who looked like a mob of young adults. It seems very strange, dirty and disrespectful.
I don’t see many kids playing. Kids playing I would be inclined to tolerate. I see grown people acting like idiots.
I was just there in March.
Too bad they didn’t try this stunt on the actual battlefield.
Some of them would have learned to fly.
Once.
I'll fully admit that I'd didn't bother to read the article, but I'm inclined to agree with you.
Some years ago, I was taken to task while WBill Jr and I were visiting a battleship. Mrs WBill was off looking at something or other, and Jr. - as bored 3-year-olds are wont to do - was running a Matchbox car up and down one of the pathways for the anchor chain (it was perfect, a nice long smooth straight sloped run). There wasn't anyone around but us, we weren't interrupting any programs or bothering anyone. It was just me and my kid, playing together on a pleasant spring morning.
Some busybody came from off the dock to give us the word about how disrespectful we were being. I disagreed - politely at first, then more stringently as she pressed the issue - saying that the sailors who served (and also died) aboard, did so precisely so WBill Jr. could do what he was doing. And, very likely, they'd be right there joining in, or at least watching with a grin on their faces. She huffed and puffed for a bit then flounced off, and that was the end of it.
But I've always thought about that. Was it disrespectful? As long as we weren't interrupting a service or ceremony, or endangering anyone .... what's the problem?
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