Wrong Place, Wrong Time . . .

While out walking to take a picture of the 2CV above, I stumbled on this monument which I'd never seen before at the edge of the village of Louvres that I go by every day on my way to work, but had never stopped to poke around in.
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France has small monuments like this all over the country, after having hosted two world wars on her soil, there were uncountable incidents that merit remembering. As there has been alot in the press this week for the 65th D-Day anniversary, I wanted to post this in the spirit of rememberance of French victims of that conflict. Many young people participated in the resistance, right up to the end of the war, and many paid dearly for their actions. . . like the four young men this monument remembers.
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It reads : Here perished four valiant FFI (French Interior Forces = Resistance) who were taken prisoner and shot by the Germans on 29 August 1944 at 21h00, the eve of the liberation of the town of Louvres.
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Two were 20, two were 18, their lives in front of them, cut short . . .
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