tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post5148680414053347656..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Places of Beauty and Peacezmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-45333901435921676312017-09-23T00:47:02.775+02:002017-09-23T00:47:02.775+02:00The county courthouse next to which that monument ...The county courthouse next to which that monument stands is probably half an hour away in light traffic, and I'm not sure that there isn't another such monument within twenty miles. By WW II the first county had learned better, or at least learned discretion.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-26682792654596718712017-09-22T16:53:08.247+02:002017-09-22T16:53:08.247+02:00I think the Menin Gate may list by rank as well. I...I think the Menin Gate may list by rank as well. I will check when I'm there next week. Your final observation shocks me. zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-33567235441615668952017-09-11T01:22:38.266+02:002017-09-11T01:22:38.266+02:00"Officers and privates": if you visit th..."Officers and privates": if you visit the cathedrals of France or Belgium, you may find the lists of the war dead broken out by officers, NCOs, and private soldiers; and I think that in the Strasbourg cathedral the monument to the US dead of WW II mentions each grade separately. I assume that this has to do with the French military vocabulary. It is any case less obnoxious to my eye than the lists of WW I dead one can find not far from here that list the deceased not by rank but by race.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com