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Remembrance Day Vimy Ridge National Memorial Mother Canada grieves her dead

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Front View Vimy Ridge National Memorial

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The Darkest Night Ends at Dawn Mother Canada Mourns her dead at Vimy

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Approaching close up of back showing clouds and grieving parents

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Distant View from Back Vimy Ridge Memorial showing clouds

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Unknown Solider, Givenchy Cemetery Vimy National Memorial

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Unknown Solider, Givenchy Cemetery #2 , Vimy Ridge National Memorial

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Known only unto God - The Western front

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Scale and anonymity. The defining characteristics of the war. It is an endless task traversing the countryside that made up the Western Front trying to tally the “Known Only Unto God” headstones. Those headstones, the names inscribed at Vimy, the Menin Gate and Tyne Cott relay to us the horror and indignity of mass murder. Frozen faces in nameless ranks.

Grieving fiancee’s quote, Tyne Cott

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It is this quote that captures the anonymity perfectly. As plain and common a name as could be found at the time, John “Jock” Low. The attribution to an anonymous speaker, representing the tens of thousands of fiancees and wives, Anybody ,everybody, so many anonymous, unheard, disappeared. No comfort found in heroism, no good byes. No reason.