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icarus · 11-10-2022, 04:02 PM

Last weekend I had a chance to visit the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge and my great-great-uncle's grave at a WWI cemetery about a half hour away.

He survived Vimy, Passchendaele, Amiens and various other battles only to be killed at the Battle of the Scarpe at the end of August 1918.

Vimy was an amazing place to visit, to find my relative's name on the memorial and to see the most of the site at Vimy--a beautiful vista over the French countryside--still roped off with red warning signs for unexploded ordinances, the land still wavy from all the craters that were there over a hundred years ago.

Lest we forget.

11-10-2022, 04:02 PM	#4
icarus Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Singapore Exp:	Last weekend I had a chance to visit the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge and my great-great-uncle's grave at a WWI cemetery about a half hour away. He survived Vimy, Passchendaele, Amiens and various other battles only to be killed at the Battle of the Scarpe at the end of August 1918. Vimy was an amazing place to visit, to find my relative's name on the memorial and to see the most of the site at Vimy--a beautiful vista over the French countryside--still roped off with red warning signs for unexploded ordinances, the land still wavy from all the craters that were there over a hundred years ago. Lest we forget. __________________ Shot down in Flames!