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Hallowed Ground Kilometer Zero Western Front, France

he World War I Western Front spanned some 330 miles as the crow flies, from Nieuport on the Belgian coast southeast to the Swiss border. Less than a mile from the Alsatian village of Pfetterhause is the southern anchor point, known then and now as Kilometer Zero, which remained fixed from late August 1914 through war’s end. Marking the spot is

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