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A couple of workers in Ypres (yes, that Ypres) died last month unintentionally digging up a WWI bomb.

His wife committed suicide a week after Ypres - though some have disputed if it was connected.

It was interesting doing a tour of Ypres where my grandad did artillery in WW1.

We visited flanders fields in ypres, and menin gate.

I think a lot of people in the UK are well aware of the Menin Gate at Ypres and their Last Post ceremony.

We did some research for him, and the guy had fought at Ypres twice, been part of the first gas attack, and got shipped off to Mesopotamia.

I don't know if the use of chlorine at Ypres was intended as an irritant or a poison — it's been too long since I studied the history.

I don't blame anything on current Germany either ( and we have joint memorials in Ypres for example), but if you look at current attempts of what you're talking about and try to blame.

Interestingly, just found out the Australians were at Ypres as well alongside Canadians (and, in many of the battles, along with many other colonial troops: India, New Zealand, and South Africa).

I produce new editions of classic books for Standard Ebooks and used vorticist artists for cover art a couple of times recently: Edward Wadworth’s Rotterdam for Edwin Abbott’s Flatland[1] and Paul Nash’s The Ypres Salient at Night for a collection of Wilfred Owen’s poetry[2].

I wonder if any of the people who died in the Ypres/Passchendaele region, or Somme, would call the war “cool“.

According to the article: > One theory was that Canadians were perpetually avenging the “Crucified Canadian,” a battlefield rumour of a captured Canadian officer that Germans had supposedly crucified to a barn door near Ypres.

That is an extreme example, but for my "a 100 year old is historic" North American sensibilities, virtually everything in places like Belgium, France and Italy is overwhelming, from the weird little waffle shop in Ypres to the sound of bells, the stones on the street, etc, everything just becomes an onslaught of overwhelming experience.

In my family there's a story about some relatives who lived in a village near Ypres.

The first German use of chemical weapons (tear gas, again) was on the Eastern Front, near Warsaw, not at Ypres.

In Ypres, Belgium, there are still unexploded shells from the first world war being unearthed.