Honoring the hero's of WWI
ZONNEBEKE, Belgium — The Tyne Cot cemetery sweeps
gently down the slope, the nearly 12,000 headstones aligned in solemn rows of
gleaming white. Beyond the walls stretch Flanders Fields, dotted by red
farmhouse roofs. For the stage of some of World War I's worst carnage, the scene
is tranquility itself — but over the whisper of wind floats a whine like a
dentist's drill.
A closer look gives the reason for the jarring
sound.
Some gravestones are chipped or cracked. A century of
wind and weather has worn the surfaces so the names are hard to read. The stones
are no longer perfectly aligned.
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