When my wife and I travelled on foot following the "Cathar route" from Berga (Catalunya) to Montsegur (France), one of the most shocking things we found was the ever-present monument erected in each village, not matter its size, in memory of the soldiers of the place who were killed in the Great War. The shocking thing was not the presence of the monument itself but the fact that all the names listed were from boys of the village... and believe me, they were very small, rural and mountain villages, but the list in each monument was not so short in size...Taking into account that only the names of the dead ones were listed, it's not difficult to supppose the profound impact over the everyday life of every inhabitant of the region.... Even being far away from the fronlines and not suffering the direct impact of war in their territory a good part of an entire generation of men vanished.
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