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Hank Rogers[_2_]

wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:32:06 -0600, Hank Rogers >
> wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sad 100th anniversary today - although it was 100 years ago last
>>> Sunday that my paternal grandfather was killed and buried in France
>>> next to Wilfred Owen.
>>>
>>
>> So, your gramps was killed during the last week of WW1?
>>
>> It's a tough break, being so damn close to the end.
>>
>> I think I read that the last person killed was on the morning of the
>> 11th, just hours short of making it through alive.
>>
>>
> Yes, a man from Nova Scotia was killed by a German sniper just before
> the bells rang for the Armistice, about two minutes before. There is
> a new statue for him at Mons (he was the last Commonwealth soldier
> killed) which is very lovely, looks like a giant tear drop or drip of
> blood.
>

A tear (or blood) drop is fitting.

I wish it really had been "The war to end all wars".