This is Fort Vaux World War I ruins in Verdun, France.
In the spring of last year (2017), Dutchman and I went to visit the battlegrounds of the First World War in France.
One of the places we visited, and in fact we have used as our base, is the city of Verdun in the Meuse valley in the department of Lorraine. For this short extended weekend history trip (4 days), we picked a few important places to revisit and one of them is Fort Vaux, located on the outskirts of Verdun.
I actually found it strange to be sitting on top of a bunker and taking a picture of it when people have died on this spot a hundred years ago. Is this what they say desensitised because of time? Shall I say that time indeed heals all wounds?
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