MARCH 1, 1917: Fourth Canadian Division launches a poison gas raid against German positions on Vimy Ridge. It ends in disaster as many of the Canadians are overcome by gas when the wind changes direction and when German artillery fire ruptures some of the gas cylinders.
It had been a good summer for him. He was a good fighter, strong.
His name might have been Mirwais or Muhammad or maybe Zalmai.
He wasn’t from Salavat, this small town in central Panjwai, but he was an Afghan and he’d come here to fight the foreigners; us.
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