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There is a wonderful motorway “Aire” in France near the river Somme: a service station and restaurants, with walkways across the reed-covered ditches; carp swim in the water and a viewing platform in a tower enables the visitors to look across the landscape. There is no sign of the carnage that once was all around. But by an act of imagination, when the birdsong stops for a moment, as the motorway drones in the background like distant guns, you can hear a whisper through the reed beds of a soldier’s voice….“Lest you forget”. |
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