This is a curious uncovering of historic happenstance, in a burial area that appropriately memorialize our whole world’s mixed feelings about war.

Thanks for sharing your discovery.

Although I have never served in military, I find fascination in a limited study of 20th-century wars. . . so much so that, in 2011 I published a novel “Smoke”, with a story revolving around a young American’s odyssey through France in 1937, to visit his father’s WWI grave in Oordenaarde, Belgium.

My limited research has revealed that back in that time — the first Big War — war itself was conducted on a much bigger scale, and its mortal effects were simpler, more fundamental to classic human struggle. Closer to the ground. Numbers of deaths were generally much larger. Whereas nowadays, high tech wars are relatively limited in their quick-strike high-tech morbidities. The result is (it seems to me). . . fewer dead, and quicker armistices.

So maybe we humans have actually made some progress in that department in the last hundred years or so. As long as we can manage to not go nuclear, maybe that’s progress?