hushed silence

Posted by ka. Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:11:00 GMT

April 9th

We were dancing a macabre dance as our nerves just vibrated to the thousands of shells and machine gun bullets… whizzing over.
I felt that if I had put my finger up, I should have touched a ceiling of sound.

Corporal Gus Sivertz of the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles,
on the experience of advancing under heavy machine gun fire from the rear.
Vimy Ridge, 9 Apr 1917.

Official war photo of Vimy Ridge 1917
Photographer: Jack Turner
Source: Digital Collections website operated by the Government of Canada

Lest we forget
Photographer: j_klue
Source: Flickr: Photos from j_klue