84th Pilgrimage of the Yser ( Ijzerbedevaart)

Diksmuide, West Flanders, August 28; 2011...A man dressed as a prisoner demostrate during the 84th Pilgrimage of the Yser ( Ijzerbedevaart). The pilgrim is a homage to the Flemish soldiers killed during the first world war (WWI). There have been two IJzertorens, the first built after the First World War by an organisation of former Flemish soldiers. On the night of 15 and 16 March 1946 it was illegally demolished with dynamite; the perpetrators were never caught. Several years later, a new and higher tower was built on the same place. The IJzertoren symbolizes the demand for Nooit meer Oorlog (Never again War), written on the tower in the four languages of the fighting forces in the area during the First World War (Dutch, French, English and German). The rebuilt tower (84 m) is the highest peace monument in Europe. The tower also sports the abbreviations AVV-VVK: (Photo by Thierry Tronnel/Corbis via Getty Images)
Diksmuide, West Flanders, August 28; 2011...A man dressed as a prisoner demostrate during the 84th Pilgrimage of the Yser ( Ijzerbedevaart). The pilgrim is a homage to the Flemish soldiers killed during the first world war (WWI). There have been two IJzertorens, the first built after the First World War by an organisation of former Flemish soldiers. On the night of 15 and 16 March 1946 it was illegally demolished with dynamite; the perpetrators were never caught. Several years later, a new and higher tower was built on the same place. The IJzertoren symbolizes the demand for Nooit meer Oorlog (Never again War), written on the tower in the four languages of the fighting forces in the area during the First World War (Dutch, French, English and German). The rebuilt tower (84 m) is the highest peace monument in Europe. The tower also sports the abbreviations AVV-VVK: (Photo by Thierry Tronnel/Corbis via Getty Images)
84th Pilgrimage of the Yser ( Ijzerbedevaart)
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