WW 1 Start

From the BBC:
"EU leaders gather for WWI memorial ahead of Juncker battle"

EU leaders have held a ceremony in Ypres, Belgium, on the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One, ahead of an EU summit.  In Ypres, the 28 EU leaders joined in one minute of silence remembering the fallen of WW1 at the Menin Gate.  Ypres is close to Western Front battlefields where hundreds of thousands lost their lives, and the gate bears some 54,000 names of the missing.

In a moving ceremony, the leaders dedicated a memorial bench stamped with the word "peace" in the EU's 24 official languages. European Council President Herman van Rompuy read the poem The Fallen which was first published in 1914.

^ I left out the part about Juncker because it doesn't really have anything to do with the World War 1 Remembrance Ceremony. It has been 100 years since the war started (whose mishandling of the Peace Treaty helped lead to World War 2.) I am curious to see how the EU and Germany in particular remember the 100 years of the start and end of World War 2 in 2039 and 2045. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28041155