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who stood with their bayonets there until they were buried alive
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and they didn't move an inch in the passeront pas."
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This is a completely made up story.
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But it became a sacred site
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commemorated every 22th of february 1917,1918, 1919.
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In other words, the war itself created a mythic set of representations of war
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that have come up to the present.
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The Great War created myth in other ways.
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Another one came from the landing in Gallipoli.
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Gallipoli was a Turkish
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peninsula south of Istanbul, constantinople then.
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It's about a four-hour taxi drive in lousy traffic.