Posted AT 1:02 AM EST on 07/05/05
The island where Canadians kept fighting
Den Burg, Netherlands — Helga Vos picked the flowers from beside the road and deposited them on the graceful monument without knowing exactly why she was doing it.
The Belgian tourist had stopped at the Georgian war cemetery on a whim, unaware of why hundreds of soldiers from the Caucasus were buried here.
"I only know what I read on the board over there," she said.
Her ignorance is far from unique.
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