A grim reminder and a celebration of valour | Oli Glod
Two weeks ago, I finally managed to visit two sites which had been on my to-do list for quite some time: the German Military Cemetery, followed by the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial. Both sites are within a three minutes‘ drive from each other in Sandweiler. It was quite early when I arrived at the German Military Cemetery and the only other people present were an elder woman and her grandson. The site is secluded, yet easily accessible from the main road, bordering on public hiking and biking ways. Immediately upon entering through the main gates, I felt a deep sadness wash over me. It’s pretty difficult to describe, but I guess it’s just one of those things you have to experience for yourself. The cemetery itself is rather bleak and reading all of the headstones engraved with the names, rank, birthdate and date of death of so many soldiers aged 17 to 20 knocked the wind right out of me. Not all of the fallen were so lucky to be identified, many corpses remain nameless…..
Most of the shots were taken with a Fujifilm X100S, but there are a few X-E1 shots with the XF55-200 lens in there as well, while processing was done in Lightroom 5, with a little help from VSCOfilm.
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