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Article: French remember another war.(TRAVEL)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 29, 2004
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Byline: Tom Carter, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
CHATEAU-THIERRY, France - Except for the howitzer, ripped and punctured by shrapnel and quietly rusting beneath the trees, the path through Belleau Wood might have been a peaceful hilltop lane almost anywhere in the Marne Valley.
It was anything but peaceful during June 1918, when for three weeks one of World War I's most important and vicious battles raged and the difference between victory and defeat in the "war to end all wars" was determined.
Overlooking the Marne River, on this day dappled by the sunlight of a late afternoon, the ground is still scarred by World War I trenches. It was here that the ...