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Old 08-17-2007, 07:56 AM   #2763 (permalink)
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The only memorial that can evoke that kind of sentiment has to be the Canadian Memorial at Vimy Ridge. this however, is in France. Did we earn rights of conquest when we took it back from the Germans (albeit with help from the Brits & Yanks!)?


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Ah you are a wily one JTK.... This site is in fact a part of Canada! I didn't know that:

(from http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/s...TOKEN=49819640)

The land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares (250 acres) in extent, was (as stated on a plaque at the entrance to the Memorial) "the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada". Eleven thousand tonnes of concrete and masonry were required for the base of the Memorial and 5,500 tonnes of "trau" stone were brought from Yugoslavia for the pylons and the sculptured figures. Construction of the massive work began in 1925 and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, King Edward VIII unveiled the monument

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