The Somme, such a sweet region in the north of France, was, more than a hundred years ago,
The Somme, such a sweet region in the north of France, was, more than a hundred years ago, a hell of fire, blood and steel for an entire generation of young men who fought here in the deadliest battles of the great war and who, in the barbed wire, under the shells and the bullets, were swept away by the brutality, the savagery of the war which drowned them in darkness, in the madness of a world which sank into despair and which pushed so many men in the prime of their lives killing each other in the mud in absolute rage and side by side, bayonets forward, in the whistling of shrapnel, in the chaos, threw themselves on each other and gave each other death in the shock of guns which rained lead and blood of young boys who gave their all in the name of peace and freedom who were won by so many sacrifices through battles in which courage was seen , the compassion, the camaraderie which brought together these heroes and who, with loyalty and honor, with bravery, did their duty until th...