A long time ago ... so much has changed.
Posted on 04/11/2005 10:43:07 AM PDT by NorthOf45
Not many vets of that war still around.
Nope ... it'll be a strange feel when they are all gone.
A ping for the "Never Forget" file ...
A much different Canada during that era. Now the Canadian weenies take your guns and like France rufuse to participate in the Iraq war.
Thanks for the post, a relative was there - and survived the war.
"We can do without war," he said. "If the powers that be would get together and reason things out between themselves, how much better we'll be than if we go to war to settle it."
Proof positive that there must be something in the Canuckistan water that rots the brains of even the most meritorious Canucks.
I suspect the author threw that in.
I wouldn't be so quick to critique such a comment from a WWI vet who has been there and back. Are you saying that a world without war wouldn't be a better situation? I don't think he's saying that it could be that way ... just that it should be.
Ever been to the "Blood" reserves in Alberta...most males of "age" are signed up with the USMC in Iraq...Canadians are there...low key of course.
Do you really disagree with this statement, or do you just feel like bashing Canadians?
"We can do without war," he said. "If the powers that be would get together and reason things out between themselves, how much better we'll be than if we go to war to settle it."
"Do you really disagree with this statement, or do you just feel like bashing Canadians?"
I'd like this senile old fool to tell me how we negotiate with the likes of the mad Moslem murderers who've been raping and pillaging for 1500 years, right up to the suicide bombers in Palestine and the child murderers at that Russian school. His remarks strike me as being romantic nonsense, idiotic blather used by the cowardly peaceniks to avoid responsibility for defending the weak and defenseless among us, and should not have been uttered by someone who should know better.
Yes. An old man who saw the horrors of WWI trench warfare is a senile fool because he wistfully wishes that we lived in a world without war.
Yes, the world would be a terrible place if our leaders could actually resolve all disputes with rational negotiation.
Regarding the second picture, what are the pyramids in the distance?
It was at Vimy that Canadians fought for the first time as an independent force under its own command and proved their worth not only to the British Army, but to themselves and their countrymen.
Canadians went to war as part of the Empire, colonial troops in units raised to fight for the Empire.
They came home as Canadians.
"Canadians went to war as part of the Empire, colonial troops in units raised to fight for the Empire."
"They came home as Canadians."
Then, two generations later, they gave up any claim on freedom and, lemming-like, willingly implemented the worst aspects of Eurabian folly, including religious persecution, gay fetishism, UN idiocy, gun-grabbing, socialist economics, corrupt Liberal politics, welfare statism, mindless anti-Americanism, and, now, Sharia Law.
F*** Canuckistan!
Bless those who stood tall when the moment came. The rest doesn't matter.
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