Remembrance date for Algerian war victims … we shall be having the usual march to the Monument…
Very emotional time for those who have had personal experience of the Algerian war…
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2024:
For our commune, it’s 3pm at the Mairie, then we march to the Memorial…
year after year, the numbers attending get smaller and smaller… only natural, of course, as our “old soldiers” succumb to age and infirmities… (a few families do keep up the tradition… Remembering)
The soldiers will have been youngsters at the time… and the sadness in their eyes as they relate their experiences can leave no-one in any doubt: War is not at all glorious, for anyone… anything but… 
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