On a trip to Italy in 07, my friends and I were heading to Rome from Pompeii, when it was discovered that Monte Cassino was on the way up. One friend, being a WWII buff wanted to stop there, and we decided to take a side trip. In the shadow of the mountain where the fortified monastery once stood was a sprawling graveyard where the allied soldiers who died trying to take it were interred. It was very a humbling experience to say the least, but something worthwhile. The cross was the dominating structure in the middle of it all and made for a wonderfully imposing and somber subject on such a muggy spring day.

"Their name liveth for evermore"

-Memorial inscription

(if anybody is curious about Ver. 1, you can see it HERE on FA. )

Photo taken in 2007, 35 mm film print, digitally altered.