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David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Draft Dodged by Time
Vietnam Memorial wall
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Canadian Vimy Memorial

Reconciliation - I thought of the memorials found in every French village, not for those fallen in this war
but those who were "Mort pour la France" in the First World War.  That and the Treaty of Versailles
whose terms both humiliated and bankrupted the fledgling democracy of the German Wiemar republic thus paving the way for National Socialism, Hitler and World War II. 

I remembered my feelings earlier in this trip, as I had stood between the white limestone spires of the Vimy Ridge Memorial, honouring the sixty-six thousand Canadians who perished in the First World War...

The memorial, reputed to be the most beautiful in all of France, rises from the crest Hill 145, the highest point of the Ridge.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Turning south from there I came to what seemed to me the saddest and most disturbing place of all.  The German Cemetery at La Camba.  In the centre, on top of a large grassy mound, surrounded by red roses stand two shrouded figures.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > D-Day +65 Normandy: A Personal Journey photo
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Batterie du Longues
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > D-Day +65 Normandy: A Personal Journey photo
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > View of Dieppe beach from the German gun positions. The truth is that Stalin was threatening to sue for peace with Hitler on the verge of taking Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad. 
Not only that but Roosevelt did not like Churchill's plan to go to North Africa first. He wanted to take on Hitler in France right away. 

Churchill gave Mountbatten the job of mounting a mini invasion.... AND PROVE IT COULD NOT BE DONE YET.  (source Gen. Denis Whitaker in his book Dieppe Tragedy to Triumph) 

So the bombing of the guns by Bomber Harris was called off at the last minute, no battle ship was sent to provide fire support and the Canadians were slaughtered.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Beyond these are, tangled woods surrounded by yellow ropes strung between red signs "Danger Entre Interdit Munitions Non EclatÚe"
(undetonated explosives).
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Vimy: Canadians in WW 1 photo
Draft Dodged by Time
Vietnam Memorial wall
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Draft Dodged by Time
Vietnam Memorial wall
Draft Dodged by Time
Vietnam Memorial wall
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