Postcards:
Each evening at supper I wrote three or four
postcards. Here are some of them.
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| Vimy Ridge |
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| Beers of the Meuse | ||
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| Verdun. An antique card circa 1960 | ||
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| Verdun
circa 1890. The 'Porte' is still there, as are some of the buildings along the rive. |
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| Vaux is one of the WWI fortresses oin the hills surrounding Verdun. | ||||
"In this ruined fortress 250 men resisted for seven days from June 7, 1916, the furious assalts of the Germans, gas, flamethrowers, and the tortures of thirst...."
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Smile !!
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| Vin d'Alsace, Verdun |
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Morez,
in the Jura Mountains. The town is in a deep narrow gorge; room for one
highway, one river, and one railway.
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| The famous fountain at Geneva | ||
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| Route Napoléon | ||||
| "Route taken by the Emperor on his return from the isle of Elba, from the 1st to the 7th of March, 1815" | ||||
| His route was south to north — mine was north to south. | ||||
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Gap
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| Lavender field in Provence | ||
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| An olive grove w. poppies | ||
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