[goodwithagun]

Sad. I can’t even get my high school students to bring paper and pencils to class. These guys actually wanted to go to war for the good of their country, and to better the lives of those they left behind.

[GMMAC]

"These guys actually wanted to go to war for the good of their country, and to better the lives of those they left behind."

The enlistment numbers related to Canadian service in 'The Great War' are almost unbelievable.
As example, Canadian WW1 casualties and America's Vietnam loses are more or less identical at roughly 60K. However aside from Canada suffering her loses over a considerably shorter time-frame, Canada's 1915 overall population was about 8 million while the U.S. had a population of just over 200 million in 1970.

Visit little villages in rural Canada today with populations under 1,000 & you'll often find Cenotaphs listing the names of 10-20 local boys alone lost in WW1.