L – leaving the security of home, family and friends
E – engaging in the hell of war at Passchendaele, the Somme, and Dieppe
S – sent to distant, unknown places
T – targeted by rifles, mustard gas, tanks, aircraft, submarines
W – women who took up jobs in munitions factories
E – enduring the hell of war via stress, pain, grief, fear, anxiety, uncertainty
F – four divisions of Canadian Corps who fought at Vimy Ridge in April 1917
O – over 15,000 Canadians dead or wounded at Passchendaele, Fall 1917
R – reputation of Canadian soldiers as “hard hitting shock troops”
G – guns, guns, guns
E – emotion! 3367 Canadian casualties at Battle of Dieppe, August 1942
T – tanks, tanks, and – THANKS!
