| This moment I caught one evening at Oshkosh felt like a time warp to how a sunset could have looked there a century ago. Regarding what others have said about casualties on the last day, it was widespread across the front and on both sides that in the final minutes whatever ammunition was at hand got fired off. One of the saddest things I've ever read was an interview with a guy who was walking around that afternoon and came across several men who had been sitting in the open at that moment believing the shooting was over, and were torn to pieces by the last artillery barrage of the war. Imagine the tragedy of surviving months in the trenches and being killed in the last two minutes of the war....
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