Actually, the US lost far more men in the Battle of the Bulge, 12/1944 - 100,000 casualties (19,000 killed) - than the Canadians lost at Passchendaele - 16,000 dead and wounded combined. But there is no point in playing a numbers game - as John Donne said, "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind."


The real tragedy at Passchendaele was the loss of so many good men for so little gain, so little reason.

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