THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME...MY FRIENDS IN FRANCE CALL THIS THE "SAD PART OF THEIR COUNTRY". I DON'T THINK SAD BEGINS TO DESCRIBE IT. ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE BATTLE HERE 60,000 YOUNG MEN DIED. YEA, SAD INDEED.
TRENCH WARFARE AT IT'S BEST. BEFORE EROSION CLAIMED THE LANDSCAPE, THESE TRENCHES WERE 8ft DEEP.
THE "KILLING TREE". ONLY A FEW METERS FROM THE TRENCHES ABOVE. NO ALLIED SOLDIER MADE IT PAST THIS POINT. NOT ONE.
SHEEP NOW GRAZE, WHERE SHEEP ONCE FOUGHT AND DIED.
ENORMOUS MONUMENT TO THE DEAD...ON THE WALL IS A PLACARD WHICH READS "WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THEIR NAMES"...AND YET MOST OF THE GRAVE MARKERS READ "UNKNOWN...KNOWN ONLY TO GOD". YET, WE NEVER HAD TIME TO LEARN THEIR NAMES, LET ALONE FORGET THEM.
VERY IMPRESSIVE MONUMENT...VERY DEAD SOLDIERS.
TRENCH WARFARE AT IT'S BEST. BEFORE EROSION CLAIMED THE LANDSCAPE, THESE TRENCHES WERE 8ft DEEP. 
THE "KILLING TREE". ONLY A FEW METERS FROM THE TRENCHES ABOVE. NO ALLIED SOLDIER MADE IT PAST THIS POINT. NOT ONE. 
SHEEP NOW GRAZE, WHERE SHEEP ONCE FOUGHT AND DIED. 
ENORMOUS MONUMENT TO THE DEAD...ON THE WALL IS A PLACARD WHICH READS "WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THEIR NAMES"...AND YET MOST OF THE GRAVE MARKERS READ "UNKNOWN...KNOWN ONLY TO GOD". YET, WE NEVER HAD TIME TO LEARN THEIR NAMES, LET ALONE FORGET THEM. 
VERY IMPRESSIVE MONUMENT...VERY DEAD SOLDIERS.
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