I wonder how many UK catters have made the pilgrimage to the Somme and the Ypres salient. Would you be able to describe, or explain the experience to the most sympathetic of catters from ,say , the USA. Suffice to say it is neither hatred nor nostalgia.
The original post compared how the two battles are commemorated. The Somme is commemorated though not with rowdy street parades. Go any day to Thiepval and you will see hundreds of pilgrims from these islands. And in Belgium every evening at the Menin Gate the traffic is stopped end the Last Post sounded. I was there last on a filthy night in late November. There must have been 300 standing observing two minutes of utter silence.
Keith.