Ypres, Belgium

From The Guardian today: Thousands gather at Ypres for last great act of remembrance

"Of the 300,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the Ypres Salient during the five battles that spanned the war, 100,000 bodies were never recovered. The battlefield mud was so thick it swallowed men and horses whole. 'The world’s worst wound,' the soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon wrote of Ypres."

Trump flew over but did not visit any cemeteries, because it was raining.

"Winston Churchill’s grandson called Mr. Trump 'pathetic' and not fit to represent the United States.

[NY Times]

"But he [Trump] will not stay for a Paris peace forum that Mr. Macron is sponsoring to bring together world leaders to discuss ways to avoid conflict."

Embarrassing, and pathetic.