
Members of the French military attend a ceremony at the Menin gate in Ypres, western Belgium on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. The ceremony commemorates the WWI 100th anniversary of the First Battle of Ypres, focusing on the themes of the refusal to surrender and the flooding of the Yser plain. The Menin Gate Memorial bearsContinue reading “Photos of the Day: October 28, 2014”
Members of the French military attend a ceremony at the Menin gate in Ypres, western Belgium on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. The ceremony commemorates the WWI 100th anniversary of the First Battle of Ypres, focusing on the themes of the refusal to surrender and the flooding of the Yser plain. The Menin Gate Memorial bears the names of more than 54,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are not known. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)