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"A lot of things seem so nuts from a distance. For example, German breeds of dogs were banned from dog shows," [Paul Gross] says, drawing an obvious comparison to the adoption of the term "freedom fries" in the U.S. Senate cafeteria after France declined to get involved in the U.S. war in Iraq.
"At that time, our population was seven (million) and change, and we sent over 620,000 men and lost 10 percent of them," Gross says. "Of those guys who went, one in 10 were killed.""I don't mean to diminish at all the tragedy of the deaths of our CF soldiers in Afghanistan," he says. "It's about 100 out of a population of 30 million, as opposed to almost 70,000 out of a population of seven-and-a-half million," Gross says. "That's kind of an awesome statistic."See the full content of this document
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Casualties of War
Paul Gross's Passchendaele is a testament to lives -- and innocence -- lost in the First World War
5555One by one, his comrades are killed by fire from a machine-gun nest in a shattered church. When the firi...See the full content of this document
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