Commentary At 8:00 every night, the Last Post sounds at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium, and has without interruption since July 2, 1928. Except during the German occupation. But as soon as it ended in 1944, the ceremony resumed. Sooner, actually. On Sept. 6, 1944, Polish forces liberated that monument to British and Commonwealth soldiers from the World War I Ypres Salient who have no known grave, and with fighting still raging elsewhere in the town a bugler appeared, unbidden, to resume the commemoration. On it has gone, for what is now somewhat disconcertingly 77 unbroken years. And even when COVID regulations forbade the crowds from gathering, for it is not just a bugler, or official wreath-layers every single night, but people from near and far, they came anyway, kept their social distance, and kept their vigil. When I had the chance to attend in …