A war memorial, next to a children's park? That's a special kind of education. In the U.S. WWII is like ancient times to most people, far removed and almost unreal. Europe I think has a much closer connection.
I love the early morning shots. Besides the war memorial/park -- kind of ghostly-- I like the lonely fruit stand and the fishing boat, which also looks kind of spectral :)
Yes :D Here especially, because of our ugly little Balkan wars after the disbandment of Yugoslavia in the 90' ... the wars that resurrected some bad old historic ideas and war crimes along the way ... if you hear our news, you could think that the WW II ended a few years ago and Partisans & Ustashas (the local Nazi equivalent, with love for concentrations camps, genocide and all that stuff) are still the key elements in the politics.
We let go of WWII, and WWI over here, but somehow we can't let go of the Civil War (1861-1865!). That whole coup thing on January 6, in the U. S. Capital? There were crazies running around carrying flags from the Civil War.
Go figure.
H,he :D yes I noticed ... you had some really surreal events there ... it looks that connections with historic conflicts is pretty strong and weird in more than one place in the world.