For King and Empire | Episode 3 | Storming the Ridge, Vimy Ridge, 1917 | Norm Christie

this is the War Memorial in Stratford Ontario and it's typical of all the war memorials across Canada in every village in every town and in every city and these memorials are gateways to the First World War unfortunately most Canadians have forgotten the First World War and they don't realize that it was the greatest and most traumatic episode in our history 400 thousand Canadians went overseas between 1914 and 18 and 60 thousand died for King and Empire [Music] the Canadian National Memorial Park on Vimy Ridge in the heart of friends people say there are 60,000 trees in this park one for every Canadian killed in the Great War [Music] the park is a gift of the people of friends to the people of Canada in its center stands Canada's national memorial dedicated to those Canadians who died in the Great War [Music] of those men much has now been forgotten but even as the grass grows over shell holes mine craters and trenches the land remembers land given in gratitude for a victory no one thought possible the capture of themI Ridge [Music] in 1917 there are no trees Vimy Ridge is bare a muddy forbidding fortress a six-mile-long bastion of the German army that has conquered northern France since German armies invaded Belgium and France the war has been fought along a line stretching from the North Sea to the Alps what is called the Western Front some of the most ferocious battles have taken place in the vini sector just north of the ancient French city of Arras having captured the coalfields of northern France the Germans are determined to keep them and turned to ridges Notre Dame de Lorette and Vimy into impregnable fortress to protect their plunder and in late 1916 it is to the Vimy front that the four Canadian divisions come marching from the nearby battlefield of the psalm where they had suffered 25,000 casualties a bloodbath such as Canada had never known nah mistrustful of the British High Command and its officers the Canadians are ordered to Vimy among the survivors of the psalm is Donald Fraser a cool tough Scot from Alberta we are threading the road again on the way to a new front slag heaps become a prominent feature of the landscape countryside embracing Notre Dame de Lorette and Vimy Ridge is somewhat pretty round here are scattered the ruins of quite a number of houses on the other side of the valley opposite us is a northern end of the mirror edge occupied by the enemy next to Vimeo a retro Monterey has been the scene of such frequent and bloody combats that the French call it the beauty tell'em or the rage of death 19:15 the French had driven the Germans from Notre Dame de Lorette but they failed to capture Vinny rich after months of savage fighting French missing wounded and dead numbered 150,000 we're at the lethargic French military cemetery near Vimy Ridge and it's one of the many French cemeteries in the area that commemorate the fallen of 1915 the fighting around this particular area nouvelle st. vous was ferocious at the initial stages of the war the French wanted to push the Germans out and felt that by continuously driving at the Germans they would ultimately break through and force the Germans to retreat as they had done at the Marne in 1914 they just kept hammering at them and hammering at them the problem was here the Germans didn't break they just kept hammering back the French built very big cemeteries massive cemeteries and you you do feel the the massive loss but at the same time you don't sense the individual laws the British Commonwealth cemeteries are smaller and more individual so they both have a different effect but both are very sad in the winter of 1916 the dead from the year before are still unburied at Vimy Ridge as agar Adamson the 53 year old commander the princess Patricia's Canadian light infantry soon discovers when he enters the trenches my dear Mabel here below Vimy Ridge in Neuville Sainte Baume we are suffering a great deal of irritation from rats in one cave leading into the trench when the French were here the Germans refused to come out and shot a French officer who went down the French then put smoke bombs down the shaft and suffocated them all 280 of them they are still there huddled together as they died it is a dreadful and unsavory sight with thousands of rats I'm having the shaft closed and sealed up with cement so that's it for today old girl never dime bag off in the ferocious struggle to drive the French back from Vimy the Germans had suffered 140,000 casualties we're in Neuville Saint Vyas German military cemetery near Vimy Ridge it's the largest German cemetery in the area it contains about 45,000 burials German cemeteries of this nature puts four men to a cross the ones that are headstones and not crosses are Jewish Jewish German soldiers this is I don't know if I could pronounce his name he's a door mat coal he was killed November 1916 German cemeteries have a different atmosphere one of foreboding and one of sadness and pain it's a different it's a different atmosphere than a British cemetery which is like an ad Wardian garden I think when you you lose a war such as the First World War where you lose millions of men for nothing at the end I think it's got to have a devastating effect on the National rifling the dead used to be considered the ghoulish business and pre-war times but over here the debtor of no account they're scattered all over the battle area I observed the row of dugouts built along the side of the Reg the first dugout had a corrugated iron roof pretty well smashed in by a shell peering in through the entrance I was astonished to see almost in skeletal stage a man and under clothes reclining on a bed on the floor lay the remains of two other Germans they must have met death suddenly I cut three buttons of the tunica one of them there's a peculiar experience peeping into the dugouts in this quiet and dark ravine and witnessing the result of tragedies enacted over a year ago by 1916 the British and French armies are exhausted with casualties totaling more than a million under aged by such enormous loss of life the generals plan a vast new offensive for 1917 the British will attack from Arras while the French attack 80 miles to the south at the chemin de Dom the Canadian objective will be the most formidable of all the German Fortress of mini bridge among the first to arrive on the Vimy front is 54 year old Canadian Army chaplain cannon Frederick Scott whose son had been killed only weeks before at the Somme it was certain now that all serious fighting was at an end till spring so everyone settled down to his world with a sense of relief and tried to make the best of things the men were in splendid spirits and we were all buoyed up with the hope that we were going to end the war I used to speak about the war of Duke and tell them there are only two issues victory or slavery and which shall it be boys and a shout victory went up as they crouched in their freezing winter trenches Canadian troops know they face a fateful year and they suspect that their next task will be to attack Vimy the ridge of death I had a service on New Year's Eve the theater was filled with men rumors were abroad that with the opening of spring we were to begin an offensive and it was generally believed that towards the close of the next year we might hope for the end of hostilities the visions came before us of the terrible battlefields of the Sun and of the faces who had gone then we all rose and there was a brief moment of silent prayer at midnight the bugler sounded the last post and the band struck up to him O God our help in ages past a mighty chorus of voices joined in the well-known strains it was an inspiring sight and we all felt we were beginning a year that was to decide the destinies of the Empire [Music] when they arrive on the Vimy front the Canadians have not yet recovered from the bloodbath of the Somme their British commander Julian baton knows he is only a few months to transform his exhausted Canadians into a single dynamic fighting force the Canadian Corps under Bane the four Canadian divisions spend their first winter together sharpening their fighting skills against the Germans at the base of Vimy Ridge on the crater line an 8 kilometer front of huge mine craters blown by the Germans and French in their struggle for Vimy Ridge the crater line is a deadly place with Canadians and Germans only metres apart as agar Adamson writes to his wife Mabel dear Mabel our frontline is most curious consisting of craters with the Bosch on the higher lip and we on the lower less than fifty feet apart the craters are about 20 feet deep filled with barbed wire thrown in by both sides we are very close and both sides snipe continuously we had one killed and four wounded last night our snipers claimed to have shot six including one staff officer but this cannot be depended upon ever thine eye gar we're in the Vimy memorial park and these are the Canadian frontlines of 1917 the crater line was one of the most dangerous positions on the front unfortunately most of the front was greater line any man here could be killed in any way at any time they were so close to the Germans they were deathly afraid of of Mines going up and they were deathly afraid of trench mortars from their position inside the trench they could actually see a trench mortar being launched up in the air like a football being punted and of course they would know where it's gonna land any to have to run like hell to try to get away from it it was a really terrifying experience but perhaps what scared them the most and especially in the crater line were the enemy snipers because there are only 150 feet away one newcomer on the crater line is a freshly arrived volunteer from Nova Scotia 26 year old will bird will is a crack shot an ideal sniper but inexperienced troops coming into the line like when will Byrd first came into the line they were the easy targets and the Germans would pick them off on a regular basis and because the only thing showing was their head the only thing that would be hit was their head and they could just pick them off silent death boom the distance was not more than 100 yards and I had crosshair sights it was not a great shot but I'd really killed a hun my first a second German where in his full pack appeared in the same place I shot him as soon as he appeared another man appeared he had his hair close cropped and binoculars in his head a shot as he went down the binoculars were flung in a high loop over his head with German guns and snipers looking down from the heights of Emme Ridge the fighting moves underground with sappers digging tunnels right up to and under German lines and as new arrivals will burden his pal Tommy are sent into the tunnels to dig and sweaty silence only meters away from the Germans they lowered Tommy me down by a ladder that was quite vertical to a chalk tunnel when we got down there all sound stilled and it was warm we had to shed our great coats and equipment at once we went crouching on all fours along a tunnel and solid chalk just four feet high and hardly three feet wide the chalk face was sprayed with vinegar then one man cut it with a knife as it softened and passed back large chunks to his helper at any moment it was possible the removal of a new chunk might reveal a German dugout filled with men for weeks afterwards my whole body would tense as I thought of that night [Music] we're in the grain subway that runs under the Canadian frontlines at Vimy Ridge Femi was synonymous with the tunnels leading to and from the frontlines all the troops would come through here going up to the front and returning to the depot this is the COS office I believe or this is the officer's quarters and these are very nice you can see they actually got beds this is more than the other troops again my dear Mabel it is very late at night and even in the bowels of the earth with an oil stove smoking it is very cold a little after midnight the mining detachment are going to blow up their minds with a view to destroying the German tunnels which are above ours thank you for the bundle of socks ever thine eye gar this is a hand boar so they could dig into the chalk one of the problems with mining around here particularly in chalk is that the poor unfortunate infantry on the top could hear your mining because the chalk doesn't hold the sound so you could actually hear them digging in and of course when they stop digging that's when they'd start to bring the bags of ammonal up so they knew that sooner or later there was going to be a blow and that would probably be the most terrifying period of all the mining officer would come up and he would listen to the ground and he would find out when they're gonna blow but of course the mining officer was instructed never to talk to the infantry so whenever he was around they had to get very concerned dear Mabel we can hear the Germans working a mine over one of our mines and under part of our line we will have to let one off pretty soon or be too late the miners are curious fellows and say there is no hurry as they are still working and have not commenced putting in the explosives they have said this before and been out in there counting goodbye my dear ever thine I got you can actually see how far it goes down and they go down to a certain depth and then they decide to go under the German lines and then they would have a gallery they dig a little hole for all the ammonal and there'd be bags and bags of it and then they would fill it full of sandbags so that when the explosive charge went it would go straight up in the air and none of it would be diverted laterally and that was the whole science of mining warfare from the crater line larger tunnels nicknamed Subway's lead back behind the lines towards the ruins of months santa laura at the heart of the canadian sector [Music] these are the ruins of months and L walk this was a landmark that was known to every Canadian on the Vimy front to the west you can see all the towns and villages and fields and woods that were all considered part of Canada in 1917 this area contained a hundred thousand Canadian troops and it was virtually a province of Canada it was bigger than any city in Canada the exception of Toronto Montreal and they had a whole community living here with railway stations cinemas with theater with wristwatch repair shops all Miles's camps and they produced their own papers you name it like with any big town and they had all the same entertainments they had baseball games they had football games they had soccer tournaments they in athletic events you name it everything was here dear Mabel the follies were greatly appreciated Maud's dress was worn and looked very well also for the Romanian characters the dress looked very well with a red sash the officers who drew themselves very well gave us the most excellent supper and I enclose some badly taken photographs by the local photographer of some of the characters in our follies ever thine eye God the idea here was to coordinate the operations of the Canadian Corps and to bring it into a focus like a team and it was that team that was gonna take Vimy Ridge by March 1917 even the most jaded veterans and raw recruits have become part of Julian bings team but while the men fight in the cold and snow and sleet and the crater line the countdown has begun in the shadowkhan blonde lab a general Bing and his staff feverishly finalize plans for the attack on Vimy Ridge now only days away we're on the grounds of the Chateau at Camp bland lab a this was Canadian Corps headquarters in 1917 and this is where Julian being in the staff planned the Vimy operation [Music] at the Somme the Canadians had been slaughtered by German machine guns and artillery left untouched by the Allied bombardment [Music] far more difficult than the psalm the attack on Vimy Ridge will require a perfectly coordinated plan guns and infantry working together and to prepare such a plan Julian Byng assembles a crack team including the Canadian master of tactics Arthur Currie if the plan is not flawless the attack on Vimy will end in a massacre the big thing that Bing did was the artillery preparation it was fantastic so when the troops went over most of the German positions were smashed this had not been the case on the Somme where the Canadians had suffered terrible casualties for almost no gains at all and that's one of the primary lessons that he learned from the Somme the second was that the men had to know where they were going what trenches to go after and how to do it in a revolutionary move maps are distributed down to platoon and section level each unit is trained to act independently accompanying a group to the Chateau is canon Frederick Scotland we had a large model of Vimy Ridge which all the officers and men of the battalions visited in turn in order to study the character of the land over which they had to charge if German artillery remains in action the attack will end in butchery observer balloons are sent off pinpointing the guns with air photographs and new maps Canadian Gunners rush to triangulate the position of each German gun so that by the day of the assault each Canadian gun will have its list of targets on Vimy Ridge the Canadian attack will be part of a bigger offensive as 350,000 men of the British Army prepare to attack just south of Vimy the preparations are immense in front of Vimy for the Canadian attack three miles of plank road are laid 20 miles of tramway built 40 2,500 tons of ammunition piled up 1,000 artillery pieces pulled into the line one big gun every 20 metres of front one field gun every 10 metres of front and 30,000 Canadians in the line concentrated for the attack on Vimy Ridge convinced that no one can take the ridge the German commander keeps his reserve troops far back 36 hours away Julien bings orders are take the ridge in nine hours the attack is planned for Easter Monday 1917 but two weeks earlier hundreds of allied guns begin pouring high-explosive shells of the ridge a week later twice as many guns go into action the week of suffering is what the German infantry call the last week before Easter on Easter Sunday Canon Scott moves up to the front line it was a time of mingled anxiety and exhilaration what did the next 24 hours felt in store for us it was it to be a true Easter for the world the resurrection to a new and better life if death awaited us what nobler passage would there be to eternity than such a death in such a cause dawn April the 9th 1917 Easter Monday the four Canadian divisions are poised to attack Vimy Ridge from the fourth division at the northern steepest end of the ridge to the first division at its southern thousands of Canadian troops wait anxiously in the early light 1,000 Canadian guns sits silent waiting for zero hour in the eerie silence Canon Frederick Scott Rises early I climbed the hill and that on the top I waited for the attack to begin it was a thrilling moment human lives were at stake the honour of our country was at stake the fates of civilization was at stake I watched the luminous hands of my watch get nearer to the fateful moment for the barrage was to open at 5:30 at 5:15 the sky was getting lighter the fields the roads and the hedges were beginning to show the difference of color in the early light 5:27 in three minutes the rain of death was to begin and the awful silence around it seemed as if nature were holding her breath and expectation of the staggering moments 528 529 God's help our men five-thirty The Tempest of death swept through the air it was a wonderful sound the flashes of gums and all directions made a dull red lights behind the clouds of smoke adding to the grandeur of the scene I knelt on the ground and prayed to the god of battles to guard our noble men in that awful line of death and destruction and to give them victory at precisely 5:30 the 8,000 men the first wave of the Canadian attack begin the long dangerous muddy slog forward sticking as close as possible to the creeping barrage exploding just yards ahead of them the Germans who have survived the bombardment send up flares signaling for help but there is no help the German batteries are silent each allied gun has found its targets as the Canadian barrage creeps ahead Arthur curries first division attacks across the southern end of the ridge with their front lines blown away second line German machine gunners managed to open up a withering fire cutting down up to five Canadians out of ten still the first division pushes quickly forward the men tossing grenades into dugouts killing many days Germans who don't even realize the attack has it begun as the second division fights its way towards the ruined town of Taylor Donald Fraser and his machine gun section head to the divisions most distant objective to set up their gun against German counter-attacks at 9:00 a.m. we were ordered to get ready to move picking up our respective loads we quickly climbed out of that trench and into the open as whizzed bangs rained down we've dropped into a shallow trench within a few hundred yards I saw a thick big aid man struck in the head by a piece of shrapnel which knocked his brains out they're lying two feet away and resembled the rows of a fish we're walking across the fields captured by the second division early in the morning on April 9th 1917 they move so quickly into the village over here at tillu that they actually captured a German mess full with the waiters and their white outfits and the whole thing but the whole division moved across these fields very very quickly and it was a tremendously successful action we got on the move again and made for the sunken tail to the north of Duluth looking around I noted that tillu was a village no longer just a mere shell coming into the village I ran into a German machine gunner face-to-face it was a tall man with an overcoat on in his sleeve yet a machine gun badge mostly a silver thread and very pretty it was very pale and blood was trickling down one cheek this cemetery was made right after the battle and then after the war they brought in a handful of grapes but it contains a large number of second division men that were killed in these fields it's one of the most rarely visited cemeteries it's quite pretty but no one comes here you can see both sides of the line from here you can see over here tillu village which was captured by the 31st battalion from alberta private Fraser's old unit and this behind us is to be the north part of the ridge and you can imagine the Canadian troops streaming right across here this is 19th from Toronto w Thomas killed in action 9th of April 1917 age 22 forever with the Lord which is far best this one rustle premiere just says asleep he was 24 we'll just check the visitors book starts in 1979 here and it's probably about a third full so probably 200 people in 20 years this makes it an even more lonely place attacking the center of the ridge the third division heads towards luffa Leawood but from shell holes and shattered trenches German snipers and machine-gunners take a heavy toll particularly on a ger Adamson's princess packs my dear Mabel we took all our objectives pushing off at 5:30 a.m. in a rainstorm Slayton killed 10 officer casualties including three killed Pearson shot through lung and spine I think we can hang on ever thine we're in La Valle forest and this is where the third division particularly the Canadian Mounted Rifles came through on April the 9th 1917 you can see all the shell holes trenches a lot overgrown this is part of a concrete reinforcement of some form size the bolt on the end the Germans would have really made heavy defences here a lot of concrete that would be built right into the way into their trenches this is a big shell hole from 1917 and it seems to be connected to an even larger one over here this looks like a basement of a building that's collapsed there was probably a German dugout underneath and over the years it's subsided and the whole thing is collapsed into this big hole this is a piece of a or a piece of a fuse off of an 18-pound Rochelle so that would could have helped with this big hole certainly wouldn't have made it the whole of this side would be made by a naval gun if it was just one shell that made it but you can imagine the artillery bombardment that that destroyed the German positions before the attack it was a very successful action but there are a lot of casualties and at nightfall that's when the stretcher bearers would come in to take care of the wounded there'd be hundreds of them scattered all over the battlefield and one of those stretcher bearers was my grandfather he was with the 8th Canadian Field Ambulance and his memories of Vimy were very vivid and it was a sense of pride with him to have been here on this famous day as the stretcher-bearers carry off thousands of wounded most of any Ridge is already in Canadian hands the first second and third Canadian divisions have taken their objectives but the attack by the 4th division has floundered in a welter of blood and still holding the two highest and most fortified points on the rich hill 145 and a plateau called the pimple the Germans can threaten the whole Canadian advance a German officer looks down on the dying of the fourth division in the entanglements of the German line where the corpses lie in khaki heaps the Canadian attack against us Peters out in blood [Music] late afternoon April the 9th 1917 the Canadian Corps have seized most of Vimy Ridge but the highest crest of the ridge Hill 145 and the knoll called the pimple are still in German hands just before dusk the Canadians finally drive the Germans from the crest of Hill 145 but the enemy fights back desperately hanging onto the hills eastern slope the next morning the Canadians throw in fresh troops among them as a survivor of the psalm 21 year old Victor wheeler as soon as the softening up barrage had done its work and lifted forward we were ready to stock our own pace and barrage and advance over the hill the first chap struck down was sergeant Harry s killer he was severely wounded by shrapnel we sprang forward into action and an extended formation advanced towards the summit of the hill down when a dozen of Canada's finest chaps in the first 60 seconds the distance between me and the next man has we lurched forward grew wider and wider every minute and left me with the sunken feeling of facing Heine and his guns alone when the buck private is really thrown on his own whether he will gain his objective and survive will be the best test of his courage perhaps for the first time in his life he finds himself staring alone into the face of the Almighty a breath of blackness blows on his innermost soul we're on the highest end of Vimy Ridge the only area that was uncaptured on the 9th and the 10th of April and was an area known as the pimple all that remains here today of that fighting is this beautiful little cemetery called Givenchy on Goyal Canadian cemetery and it's one of the nicest and most remote historically anyway cemeteries on the Western Front you can hear the cars speeding by on their way to Paris and no one has any time for these sacrifice here it's a beautiful little Cemetery was made in the rabbit warren of trenches that were were all throughout this part of the ridge it was just totally an impossible place shell holes old trenches barbed wire and these men were all killed fighting their way along the trenches towards Vimy Ridge Hill 145 you can see the nature of the graves they're all packed together there's often two or three names to a headstone that's a trench burial officer of the 78th battalion which is Winnipeg granted ears major WT Hooper 9th of April 1917 age 38 tell England that we died for her and Harry rest content unknown corporal of the Seaforth is buried in the same area private CW McClure 72nd Seaforth Highlanders Canadian infantry 9th of April 1917 age 34 not forgotten we had fought our way to the crest of the ridge and now the Germans fought like animals have paid to drive us back up the eastern slope I asked myself will we have enough men left to take and hold our objective at that very moment private John George Patterson leaping ahead like a maddened Jaguar bombed and then bayonet at all the men of a German machine-gun crew that was hindering our progress and came through without a scratch his fearless act enormous Lee encouraged us to continue toward our final objective for his valor King George the fifth awarded private Patterson the Empire's rarest and most coveted honor the Victoria Cross as we plunged forward the do I play and clearly in view we now smelled victory corporal Victor wheeler on the evening of April 9th the Canadians were in control of Hill 145 but the Germans were still clinging to the ridge so the next day on April 10th the 50th battalion with Victor wheeler and other men from British Columbia and Manitoba pushed the Germans right off the ridge and this is the view that they had this is the do a plain you can see the City of lens you can see the slag heaps and this beautiful lush green territory now the Canadians were the ones that were in control they had one more attack to make to secure the entire Ridge and that was going to be at the pimple it would take place two days later we went forward with chronometer accuracy virtually touching the steel ed to the beautiful creeping barrage always a few feet ahead of us the whipping cutting sound of hard steel fury was music to our ears and the sight of the German dugouts parapets and machine-gun emplacements exploding Schuyler was a pleasure more like enraged Avengers than well disciplined Canadian volunteer soldiers we Mills bomb shot dead bayonetted grappled and rifle butted the enemy and within an hour we had succeeded in capturing the pimple corporal Victor wheeler the pimple was a position that ran from that wood which is called Givenchy wood across that big mound and it's from these points that about 2,000 men from Western Canada charged across no-man's land in a blinding snowstorm and drove out the Germans from the pimple they fought in the Bois de Givenchy and into Givenchy village and by the end of the night the Battle of Vimy Ridge was over [Music] [Music] when they captured Vimy Ridge the Canadians took thousands of German prisoners many days many only too happy to be alive as he had hoped in a few short months or Julian Byng had transformed the four shattered Canadian divisions into an elite and aggressive Canadian Corps and had led them to a great victory now it was no longer the German army that dominated the great wealth of the French coal fields of the do i plain it was the Canadian Corps we were now near the crest of the ridge a perfect panorama unfolded before our eyes the white do I plain stretch to the horizon the exact we had looked forward to and prepared for for so long had been successful the important strategic point which guarded the rich coal fields of northern France dear Mabel our observation over Vimy Ridge is magnificent the Germans are falling back across the plain news of the Canadian chorus spectacular capture of Vimy Ridge razones around the world echoing in headlines from Paris to Tokyo the victory at Vimy Ridge was so stunning and so complete but historians often claim that it was on Vimy Ridge that Canada as a nation truly came of age but for the men who dodged the bullets and slog through the mud of the shell shattered patch of friends the cost of victory was not small twenty-one thousand Canadians fell dead wounded and missing on Easter Monday alone in a few hours 3000 young Canadians died here on this land where the scars can still be seen on Vimy Ridge [Music] Vimy is canada's national memorial it commemorates the sacrifice of the canadians over 600,000 have served in the war and specifically those who died the inscription here reads to the valour of their countrymen in the great war and in memory of their 60,000 dead this monument is raised by the people of Canada the names on this monument are men who are missing in France and who died in the battles of the psalm Festa Barca Vinci Hill 70 fini and in a hundred days each name has a story and it's that story which draws people into the history of this period every man here has one the site of our decimated ranks after the capture of Hill 145 almost tore the hearts out of us as we who are still standing looked around for our buddies and brothers and saw them not runner Bob Forrest spoke with tears in his eyes and said I was the only one of 18 to come out alive I knew we would not be back across the ridge again so I stopped a minute and took my steel helmet off in remembrance this statue is the soul of the monument this is the spirit of Canada weeping for our fallen sons and it's the centerpiece of the whole the heart of the monument really it's a beautiful statue by Walter all word of Toronto this monument is just the most moving tribute to Canadian sacrifice and as a Canadian I'm instilled with pride when I come here this is just the most magnificent monument I've ever seen to every detail in fact it's a it's Canadian just just moves me incredibly [Music] [Music]

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Length: 47min 27sec (2847 seconds)

Published: Fri May 01 2020