Vimy: a reminder to the world of the senselessness of war

A half-century later, with the death toll in Syria rising and the Korean peninsula coming dangerously close to nuclear war, it has to be asked whether the sense of horror that arose from the two world wars has been forgotten or faded to the point of near uselessness.

The Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. Last year marked 100 years since the First World War fight in which nearly 3,600 Canadians died.Photograph courtesy of openroads.com

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

April 4, 2018

VIMY RIDGE, FRANCE—It all started on April 9 at 5:30 a.m., now 101 years ago. After weeks of furious preparation intended to give the assaulting force a chance against an objective that had already cost 100,000 French casualties, the first wave of 15,000 Canadians began the effort to retake Fran...

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