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however, she got into financial debt and had to take a loan in order to pay off the debt but when she had to pay off the loan, despite going for the
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I wish you knew how beautiful it is in the positions. The music of the crackling shrapnel and grenades - it cannot be described, it can only be felt, enjoyed . When there is no shooting for a while, everyone walks as if dead, but starts shooting - just like at a
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and despite being wounded, she remained in the frontlines and continued the battle under continuous enemy fire until she was wounded a second time. In 1916, she participated in all the battles for the defense of
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and Čanka opened a canteen for the legionnaires along with her husband as well as delivering supplies of food and goods to
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and participated in all the battles of the regiment on the Riga front. During the war, she'd often repeat the phrase:
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Līna Čanka was born on
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named "Virsaiši" where she became a farmer during the era of
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where she would die on June 9, 1981. In 1989, she was reburied in her family cemetery in Renda Parish.
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where with her deceased brother's documents and the nickname "Jānis", she voluntarily joined the
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