Today's Flickr photo with the most hits was taken in the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Assisi.

Three South African soldiers. Fell together, buried together.

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Today's poem:

Souda Bay
- by Poetsummer 49

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/716197100385402880/souda-bay?source=share

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Here are the graves of the Commonwealth soldiers, sailors, and airmen who were killed during the hopelessly mismanaged Battle of Crete (May, 1941). All the graves look out to the sea...

Their German counterparts (who won, after a disastrous start) are buried a short distance away at Maleme, overlooking the airport, possession of which was crucial to the battle's outcome.

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