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Every day at 7:55 p.m. police in the small Belgian city of Ypres stop traffic on the Menin Road, one of the main thoroughfares into the ancient town. At exactly 8 o’clock a team of buglers from the Ypres volunteer fire brigade, in full dress uniform, march to the center of the road beneath the …
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