Fog Blog Military History Log:

HATS OFF TO THE MANY CANADIAN AND ALLIED SOLDIERS THAT FOUGHT AT VIMY RIDGE 100 YEARS AGO AND ENDURED GREAT HARDSHIP AND LOSS, THEY ARE HEROS!

Though there are no surviving veterans who fought at Vimy Ridge, Canadians across the country are making sure their legacy is not forgotten on the battle’s centennial anniversary.

Those who were not among the 25,000 Canadians at the site of the battle in northern France on Sunday gathered in communities from coast to coast to remember those who risked or lost their lives in April 1917.

Debbie Ginter, 26, of Steinbach, Man., travelled to Ottawa’s Vimy ceremony because she said she couldn’t make it to the ceremony in France.

She came to honour a man she never met, her great-grandfather, Frederick Fox, who fought and survived Vimy — but not without first experiencing unimaginable horror.