weekly photo challenge: letters
April 25, 2014 at 3:18 pm 13 comments
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this is a picture of the ijzertoren tower that houses a 22-floor museum dealing with world war i from the flemish perspective. it’s located in diksmuide, west flanders, belgium and considered to be the highest peace monument in europe.
at the top of facade, you can see a celtic cross with the following letters:
VVK
V
the letters stand for alles voor vlaanderen, vlaanderen voor kristus (all for flanders, flanders for christ).
it’s a symbol of flemish nationalism conceived by joe english, a flemish nationalist. it’s also placed on the the grave of every flemish soldier who died in the yser front during the first world war.
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Entry filed under: Blogroll, weekly photo challenge. Tags: belgium, diksmuide, ijzertoren, postaday, travel, vacation, west flanders.
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psychosomaticallyinlove | April 25, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Wow! Great post! Thank you for sharing. 🙂
http://psychosomaticallyinlove.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/weekly-photo-challenge-letters/
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plaridel | April 25, 2014 at 11:17 pm
psychosomaticallyinlove:
i’m glad you liked it. thank you.
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sustainabilitea | April 25, 2014 at 5:55 pm
That’s huge, Plaridel! I was expecting something much smaller.
jnet
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plaridel | April 25, 2014 at 11:19 pm
janet:
it was a picture i took last summer. when i read about this week’s challenge, i thought it was a good fit. 🙂
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stenoodie | April 25, 2014 at 9:55 pm
Cool selection! Thank you for the pingback as well! 🙂
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plaridel | April 25, 2014 at 11:20 pm
stenoodie:
thank you for stopping by. 🙂
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stenoodie | April 25, 2014 at 11:22 pm
You’re very welcome! 🙂
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AnnIsikArts | April 29, 2014 at 11:41 pm
Thanks for posting this memorial and telling its story. It’s a way of honouring. I didn’t know about it. I’ve been to the memorial in Northern France where my great uncle is commemorated. 🙂
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plaridel | April 30, 2014 at 10:08 am
ann:
are you talking about Normandy? i was there last summer, too.
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AnnIsikArts | April 30, 2014 at 3:27 pm
Not Normandy, though I’ve been to all the beaches (WWII). I lived in France for 11 years. It was a Canadian cemetery at Vis-en-Artois, near Arras, on the Belgian border. My great uncle was killed a month before the end of WWI. His body was never found, like so many. He was just a boy. His name is engraved on a stone on a wall at the cemetery. Sad.
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plaridel | April 30, 2014 at 10:08 pm
ann:
did you go to the essex farm and cemetery in ypres, belgium where lt. john mccrae who wrote the famous poem, in flanders fields, was buried? great site.
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AnnIsikArts | May 5, 2014 at 5:32 pm
No. My grandfather however (twice decorated for bravery during the Great War) travelled with a group of comrades to Ypres – this was in the 60s and when he was really too ill to go – where they were given the key to the city. This was written into a certificate which hung on the wall of his sitting room until he died. I’ve been to Vimy and stood in a trench. It was a shock to see how close both sides’ trenches came together before the war ended.