The Other 11th

[womzilla]

As Paris burns, a photograph from a worse time:



That's a color photograph of soldiers on the Western Front in Oise, France, 1917; it is taken from The Great War in Color, part of the Heritage of the Great War site (via).

Those are Algierians serving in the French army, back when Algerians were second-class Frenchmen. For some reason, I find this picture inexpressibly sad.

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[tnh.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That one gets to me, too. Here's another one (http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-color1.html) that hits me the same way.