(11 Nov 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ypres - 11 November 2022
1. Wide of Menin Gate
2. Inscription on Menin Gate reading (English) "To the armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918 and to those of their dead who have no known grave"
3. View through Menin Gate
4. Last Post being played
5. Band marching
6. Crowd
7. Military troop with British flag marching
8. Wide of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Mayor of Ypres Emmily Talpe, among others
9. Wide of bagpipes player marching
10. Officials laying poppy wreath
11. Paper poppies falling through the Menin Gate roof
12. Wide of crowd watching paper poppies falling
13. Close of poppy wreath
14. Floral wreaths
STORYLINE:
Across the world, nations paid respect with moments of silence and solemn ceremonies for their fallen soldiers in World War I and ever since on an Armistice Day pierced by the rumblings of Russia's war in Ukraine that showed again that peace is all too often elusive.
In Ypres, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo joined the Mayor Emmily Talpe and other officials for the commemorations.
On the continent that already spawned two world wars in little over a century, casualties since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 are estimated at around 200,000 and gave any of Friday's reminiscences about the horrors of wars past a poignant ring of the present.
World War I pitted the armies of France, the British empire, Russia and the U.S. against a German-led coalition that included the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires. Almost 10 million soldiers died, sometimes tens of thousands on a single day.
For decades in Europe, the return of such mass carnage seemed impossible, but the scenes from Ukraine's cities and countryside made all think again.
Armistice Day, known as Veterans Day in the U.S., was marked from the smallest cemeteries in Flanders Fields in western Belgium to the Champs Elysees in Paris and countless streets and offices beyond.
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