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The first 56 who lie buried near the marble
statue of the polar bear died in Russia, where their government sent
them to fight ghosts when the rest of the world was celebrating the end
of the Great War.
The others, though — the ones who bought their burial plots close
by, across a pathway from the Polar Bear Monument — were lucky enough
to come home. And years later, when so many others had forgotten the sad
and sorry story of the Polar Bear Expedition, they made the choice to
lie forever near their brothers in shared misery.
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ReplyDeleteWow! I have never heard of these men. Interesting. Thanks Brock.
ReplyDeleteNeither I.
DeleteReading about the Polar Bear unit brings to mind: what were they doing there, what was the real reason for being there, who made the real decision to send them, and those in the Wilson administration/big business-bankers that decitfully pushed the US into WWI.
ReplyDeleteShould've stayed out.
Yup.
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