Famously unreflective PM skips through German graveyard: was it just another item in his litany of indifference to things military and to foreign affairs? [Visit to Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Durnbach]

"There was no indication that there was anybody [from Shawinigan] -- I looked at the names." So said Prime Minister Jean Chretien on his recent visit to Germany after being asked why he strode past Canadian tombstones at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Durnbach.

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