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When John Key visits the Somme battlefield tomorrow to honour the fallen of World War I, he will see a place that today cannot be further from its description as "the mouth of hell".
In 1916 in France, there was no place on Earth worse than this corner of Picardy, churned by industrialised warfare into a moonscape of mud, blood, bones and barbed wire.
The mutilated forests have regrown and tractors trundle across the fields to sow and reap the grain. A white scar left in chalky soil by collapsed trenches and an annual harvest of shells brought up by the plough are among the few signs that this is a site where more than a million men were killed or wounded.
The vivid reminder of the human cost lies in the war cemeteries, with their emerald lawns and pristine white crosses. And behind each carved name lies a story.
Source: New Zealand Herald
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