So by where I live there is a sign that says 'Commonwealth War Graveyard' and I've been meaning to go there, forever! So I decided to go to it...but along the way I came across...
A Jewish graveyard! Fans of the blog know that I am into graveyards! So peaceful...
Just in case you, the reader, didn't know this, but if you're male you're supposed to cover your head in a Jewish graveyard. So when you go to a Jewish graveyard, there should be some yarmulkes/kippas there for you to put on - do so, that is what they are there for ;)
I thought this was interesting....on this man's gravestone it says 'From Berlin to Israel and despite it all back to Berlin.' I thought that was interesting....he was born in 1919...who knows what his WWII experience was like...
I am not sure, but I think the graveyard was a 'new' one, probably the 'West Berlin' Jewish graveyard, because most of the dates on the gravestones tended to be 1950's and later...
Here we go....
I think it is a beautifully-designed graveyard...very peaceful...
The large majority of the gravestones were as Mr. Beattie here - 'AGE 19'!!! UGH! I hate war!
I have to admit, I was trying to figure out how these soldiers got here. Some of the dates of death were 1943 and 1944...clearly the war is still going on. So I don't know if they died in a POW camp or if they were shot down during bombing raids over Berlin (which interestingly enough, changed my opinions about the soldiers themselves)...
Very beautiful...but all those young lives...have I mentioned this before? I HATE WAR!! And it still keeps going on....
No more comments....war is stupid! Not saying that these soldiers are stupid, just saying that war is stupid!
Any time you see Red Poppies like these in Britain or elsewhere it is in remembrance of the soldiers who died (the poppies of Flanders)....
Peace to your souls, guys....
