last update: 7.13.2004 1.10a gmt+1

vimy ridge pics

here are the pics from my trip with chris and jason to northern france where we visited the canadian war memorials from ww i... very powerful and moving...

click here to read my post about the trip.

a tunnel down in the grange subway at vimy ridge
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a water spot in the grange subway at vimy ridge, where water tanks
were stored for the soldiers underground
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would you go down there by yourself?
or with 3000 other men?
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the stone reads: canadian cemetery no. 2, 1914-1918
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final resting places for the brave
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me, jason and chris (l to r), in front of the cemetery entrance
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chris and jason (l to r), in the trench of the canadian front line
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i'm standing on the german front line... the allied line is just over
the crest of the hill
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the man-made features of this scene are typical of the area
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the vimy ridge memorial
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it's a humbling, foreboding place
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me and chris, behind the memorial
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dedication plaque from beaumont-hamel newfoundland memorial
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