{"id":383,"date":"2005-07-24T01:50:02","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T08:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2005-07-25T02:42:13","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T09:42:13","slug":"back-to-keiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Back to Keiem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unknown Soldiers<\/p>\n

After finding that all good arrangements for Church fell apart, I decided
\nto complete the route that I left last night as darkness fell. So, I’m back
\non the track at another Belgian Army cemetery, this one in Keiem (known as
\nKeyem in 1918). Most of the 628 graves in this cemetery are “Unknown”<\/a>.
\nThese are soldiers killed after a ill-planned and disastrous attack on the
\nGermans on 19 October 1914. The better armed and better trained Germans
\ndecimated the Belgian troops, separated the soldiers from their officers,
\nand turned the area into a killing field. That was the last Belgian attempt
\nat making an offensive attack for the rest of the war.<\/p>\n

Today Keiem is a peaceful farming community well off the main thoroughfares.
\nThe railroad in this area was torn up and taken away about 30 years ago. It
\nnow is a bicycle path that goes along the back of the cemetery. The cemetery
\nis also a quiet, peaceful place. Rest in Peace!<\/p>\n

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\nSent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After finding that all good arrangements for Church fell apart, I decided to complete the route that I left last night as darkness fell. So, I’m back on the track at another Belgian Army cemetery, this one in Keiem (known as Keyem in 1918). Most of the 628 graves in this cemetery are “Unknown”. These … Continue reading Back to Keiem<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-musings","category-travels","category-world-war-one"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-6b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}