[Leica] IMG: WWI celebrations in rural France - THANKS + Douglas

[Tina Manley]

How wonderful that we can see where each of us lives on the other side of
the world!!  Your's looks quiet and rural.  Here is mine:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/2540+Black+Hwy,+York,+SC+29745/@35.0321932,-81.3066328,1032m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8856f057d3bc3915:0x805612aacde3ca81!8m2!3d35.035096!4d-81.304412

The cluster of red roofs is our farm.  We moved the farmhouse off of the
highway back to the pond.  Still a work in progress.  We have 63 acres of
woods and 3 large pastures.

Tina

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 1:25 AM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Thank you all for viewing and commenting
>
> Douglas : my village is called La Petite Pierre ( Little Stone in French).
> In the local dialect it goes by the name of Lutzelstein (very close to old
> English as it goes). Mungg is a joke. I nicknamed our new to us house
> Mungg, with reference to a Swiss lodge in a Swiss village we used to go a
> lot to, before buying our own Mungg (which means Marmot in the Swiss
> dialect over there).
>
> No serious battles here, even if General Leclerc’s 2nd Armoured Division
> stopped there for the night on their way to free Strasbourg (WWII). The
> Ligne Maginot is a bit further north. And Germany about 50km from there.
>
> The city was fortified indeed, under Louis XIVth rule, by Vauban who was
> the leading engineer. And then again by Napoleon, etc.
>
> Here’s an attempt to copy the address in Google view. Our house should be
> in the top left corner, next to the 135 yellow label, along the Route de
> Zittersheim. Meadows on one side, forest on the other one, downhill for a
> few km and the next village.
>
> https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8550328,7.3193726,861a,35y,11.56h,44.77t/data=!3m1!1e3
> <
> https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8550328,7.3193726,861a,35y,11.56h,44.77t/data=!3m1!1e3
> >
>
> Thanks again
>
> AMities
> Philippe
>
>
> > Le 13 nov. 2018 à 22:56, Douglas Barry via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a
> écrit :
> >
> > Very poignant, Philippe - torn between two countries. It's a lose lose
> situation whichever way you turn. Several of my relatives served in the
> British forces during WW1, but then they returned home and fought for Irish
> independence.
> >
> > Your village - Mungg? - was it on the front line? I ask as I see rising
> ground with trees on it in a couple of the images that remind me of
> abandoned fortifications?
> >
> > Douglas
> > Douglas Barry
> > Monkstown,
> > Co. Dublin
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: LUG <lug-bounces+douglasb50=hotmail.com at leica-users.org> on
> behalf of Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Sent: Monday 12 November 2018 20:48
> > To: Leica Users Group; leicareflex at freelists.org; Olympus Camera
> Discussion
> > Cc: Philippe
> > Subject: [Leica] IMG: WWI celebrations in rural France
> >
> > As you may know, I now live in a small village in Alsace. This area was
> German in 1914, and turned French in 1918 as it was before 1870 ...
> >
> > Local people there were then forced to join the German troops, or flee,
> and get enrolled on the French side only to fight their brothers or cousins
> …
> >
> > The 360 souls village lost 37 young men between 1914 and 1918.
> >
> > Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the end of that war, and I
> witnessed the local celebrations and hommage.
> > No, it did NOT rain ...
> >
> > The series starts here:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/LPP-11-11-2018-1528.jpg.html
> >
> > Click on the right arrow to proceed to the end.
> >
> > All my be viewed larger.
> >
> >
> > Amities, and may peace be with us all, fovever.
> >
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> >
> >
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