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ert Wiebe doesn’t really like to talk about the hill that he and thousands of others fought
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over. He doesn’t really like to talk about the war much at all. It’s been 63 years since Wiebe and other Canadians with the Royal 22nd Regiment, also known as the Van Doos, hunkered down on what would become known as Hill 355, the summit of which looked out over the front lines of the Korean War. The conflict had drawn soldiers from across the globe in the first major Cold War struggle. First in November of 1951, and then again 11 months later, Wiebe and the Canadians came under heavy and sustained barrage from Chinese forces, and engaged in combat that saw desperate fighting in the snowy, muddy cold. “It was a bloody, bloody mess,” Wiebe says. “We fought and we got pushed back; we fought and we got up again. We finally took it.” Continued on A3
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MISSION SCHOOLS REMEMBER Students at Mission’s Cherry Hill Elementary school participated in a Remembrance Day event on Tuesday morning. Schools across district 75 held similair ceremonies early this week.
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