Ieper
When the Germans conquered almost all of Belgium in 1914, there was only one thing left to stop them: to flood the land at the IJzer river system near Ieper.
The heavy artillery
and the soldiers were stuck in the mud and so 4 years of trench war started. Ieper was to remain battle front until the every end in 1918
Both sides winning a couple of meters now and then at the cost of tens of thousands lives. Here the Germans first used gas - which affected the lungs of the soldiers.
Every evening The last Post is played in Ieper precisely at 20:00. Always there are relatives and regiments present. When we were there I guess teher were a couple of hundred people
present.
