And the Pain Remains

100 years since the beginning of First World War Locality French cemetery in Bitola State protocol There are deputies ministers ambassadors military attaches consuls honorary consuls media present Priests Orthodox Catholic Muslim Military band Jean Batiste Valerie an old man of about 77 years of age arrives in Bitola for the first time Tiny petite with thin and gray hair arrives late at the sad ceremony held in honor of the fallen French soldiers in the First World War According to correspondence and information from the French army his predecessor with the same name and surname must be located somewhere nearby The ceremony had already begun