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‘Fear and gratitude’: Iconic photo captures Canada’s role in a forgotten war
Jun. 25, 2025
In the photograph, the young soldier looks past the camera lens. Blood stains his face from shrapnel wounds. Grenades hang from his belt, his rifle is beside him. He is leaning against sandbags, but appears somehow coiled for action, resting but not at ease, his expression enigmatic, as if he had just witnessed something barely […]
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