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Originally posted by Vets Dottir
Hello Everyone,
I just read this amazing story and I thought I should post it in here for all to read. 
Karmen.
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Fine post Karmen. Too many people have forgotten how brutish trench warfare was during WWI. I'm presently reading "Pictorial History of the Great War" by S.J. Duncan-Clark and W.R. Plewman, which, despite it's name is mostly text and "Canada in the Great War" by W.S. Wallace. The brutality of how the war was prosecuted and the insensate terror of seeming endless artlillery barrages and gas attacks while living under the most primitive of conditions would test any man's "moral fibre." That more didn't break and run is a testament to the courage of the Canadian soldier. Remember the 2nd Battle of Ypres? As for the pardons, if it was just a case of a soldier malingering or breaking under the strain and deserting, then I feel a pardon is in order. I do believe however, that no pardon should ever be granted to any soldiers guilty of treason.
My dos pesos worth anyway!
CHIMO!