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4 by all nations We spent all Thursday at Versailles and again Sunday night to see the fountains play and the 'illumination" It was interesting and like fairyland to see - but mentally uncomfortable - how squads of the amry were stationed all over to keep the peace. And fully armed to the teeth they were. The crowd seemed peaceable enough but the psychology of the powers that be is somehow all wrong. It suggests evils to the mind where originally there was no thought of wrong-doing. But I suppose that they must give the army something to do Before we left Paris we visited Rheims, Chatres, Versailles & Fountainbleau. From Rheims we made a trip to some of the old battlefields and the Hindenburg front lines. There are not many relics left of the war except cemetaries upon cemetaries (horrible realistic reminders of the cost) a big mind over one hundred feet deep some trenches and dugouts. Here one realizes as never before the futileness of war and the devastation and the misery which it inevitably brings. No one gained a thing except destruction waste and death. Here also we get a fair idea of the reconstruction work of the villiages, of the fields, of the forests. It must have taken courage to return tot eh the devastated area and win it back to order & habitation. But nature has also helped to heal the wounds and gashes, and has hidden the scars
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4 by all nations We spent all Thursday at Versailles and again Sunday night to see the fountains play and the 'illumination" It was interesting and like fairyland to see - but mentally uncomfortable - how squads of the amry were stationed all over to keep the peace. And fully armed to the teeth they were. The crowd seemed peaceable enough but the psychology of the powers that be is somehow all wrong. It suggests evils to the mind where originally there was no thought of wrong-doing. But I suppose that they must give the army something to do Before we left Paris we visited Rheims, Chatres, Versailles & Fountainbleau. From Rheims we made a trip to some of the old battlefields and the Hindenburg front lines. There are not many relics left of the war except cemetaries upon cemetaries (horrible realistic reminders of the cost) a big mind over one hundred feet deep some trenches and dugouts. Here one realizes as never before the futileness of war and the devastation and the misery which it inevitably brings. No one gained a thing except destruction waste and death. Here also we get a fair idea of the reconstruction work of the villiages, of the fields, of the forests. It must have taken courage to return tot eh the devastated area and win it back to order & habitation. But nature has also helped to heal the wounds and gashes, and has hidden the scars
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