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Most of these shell holes were half full of water from the snow melt before.

Anybody got wounded on the side of the shell hole and started to bleed,
You'd see that some of the shell holes were just red.

I saw men moving, screaming like horses.

I saw blood coming out of their ears, out of their mouths.

If you don't think you're scared when that happens, you're scared and you're scared to death.

I never saw so many bodies in all my life.

I often think that a man who starts a war is the lowest down human being that there can be.

The Memorial stands on Hill 145 on Vimy Ridge: the primary
objective of the Canadians on April 9, 1917.

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Most of these shell holes were half full of water from the snow melt before.

Anybody got wounded on the side of the shell hole and started to bleed,
You'd see that some of the shell holes were just red.

I saw men moving, screaming like horses.

I saw blood coming out of their ears, out of their mouths.

If you don't think you're scared when that happens, you're scared and you're scared to death.

I never saw so many bodies in all my life.

I often think that a man who starts a war is the lowest down human being that there can be.