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Yeah, that's a trench. Now nature has run its course on some of them and they are looking less like trenches.
In some of the more regulated ones, you are no longer able to walk through them. In others, they have built walkways through them to support more tourists. My teacher says he sees this more and more each year most likely because they are planning for large events being that it will soon be the 100th anniversary of the Great War.
We also went to Normandy. That's Omaha Beach where my two classmates made the "USA" with rocks. And the four below that one were also taken at Normandy. Like Menin Gate, there is a ceremony every day involving the hoisting of French and American flags, and the class now takes part in that each year. And last year they met an American veteran who had fought on D-Day right as they were doing the ceremony.
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