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Military band members play the Last Post at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing as visitors watch, in Ypres, Belgium, on April 6, 2017, during a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Jack Taylor/Getty Images
At 8:00 every night, the Last Post sounds at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium, and has without interruption since July 2, 1928. Except during the German occupation. But as soon as it ended in 1944, the ceremony resumed.
John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
