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Passchendaele

Posted in Death, History by Greg Ross on April 28th, 2006

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The Belgian village of Passchendaele before and after the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917. Aerial photography showed 1 million shell holes in one square mile.

Clemenceau said, “War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”