{"id":52,"date":"2006-11-13T12:48:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T11:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2007-01-13T07:30:34","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T06:30:34","slug":"week-45-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=52","title":{"rendered":"Week 45: Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pictures for this week are all from the Commonwealth War cemetery in Arnhem, site of the heroic attempt by British, Commonwealth and Polish paratroopers to secure a bridge of the Rhine in September 1944. I have made it my habit to go there on Remembrance Day to honour these men in my own private fashion, and so I drove to Arnhem (actually, it is a suburb called Oosterbeek) Saturday morning. The weather was awful, windy, rainy and dark&#8211;I guess appropriate for visiting a cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 1700 men buried here, mostly British, but also a fair number of Poles, and members of Commonwealth nations including Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The cemetery is very well kept. Here is an overall view from the entrance:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/45.jpg\" alt=\"7554\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I said, the weather was awful, as is clearly visible in this picture:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/45alt1.jpg\" alt=\"7553\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The traditional British poppy:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/45alt2.jpg\" alt=\"7570\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few anonymous graves&#8211;not everyone could be identified&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/45alt3.jpg\" alt=\"7563\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This flower must have been put here either during the Liberation Day commemorations back in May, or perhaps during the commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem in September:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/45alt4.jpg\" alt=\"7559\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I put some stones on the Jewish graves, and other visitors had done the same:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/45alt5.jpg\" alt=\"7558\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few km down the road is the actual field where the paratroopers made the initial landing&#8211;about 2000 men in total on September 17th and 18th 1944, with about 150 killed immediately. There is now a small monument at the site. The scenery today is so incredibly peaceful&#8211;it is a good place to reflect on the sacrifices these young men made for us more than 60 years ago.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/45alt6.jpg\" alt=\"7589\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/45alt7.jpg\" alt=\"7586\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 400)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pictures for this week are all from the Commonwealth War cemetery in Arnhem, site of the heroic attempt by British, Commonwealth and Polish paratroopers to secure a bridge of the Rhine in September 1944. I have made it my habit to go there on Remembrance Day to honour these men in my own private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}