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Virus makes for one of Europe's loneliest WWI remembrances

by Raf CasertVirginia Mayo
| November 11, 2020 7:36 AM

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — When a dawn fog lifted over countless World War I battlefields, cemeteries and monuments in Belgium and France Wednesday, the pandemic ensured that the remembrance of the millions killed in the 1914-1918 conflict was one of the loneliest ever.

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