Posted on 01/30/2008 5:28:44 PM PST by buccaneer81
Of all the memorials and cenotaphs to Canadian warriors around the world, it is hard to think on any that has a deeper significance to Canadians than this one.
That particular mindset isn't confined to Canadians alone, FRiend Clive. Anyone who knows the signifigance of Vimy Ridge understands that it was indeed, the cusp where Canada became, truly, a nation in it's own right, a right bought in the blood of its sons, in bitter combat to aid another beleagered nation. The symbolism is stark, and that some today cheapen it by such tawdriness is apalling to anyone with a sense of history...
the infowarrior
Your reply needs little further comment.... but nicely put. Your analysis of that terrible Versailles Treaty brings to mind a cartoon in an English newspaper. Many years before WW2 and mentioning the humiliation of a defeated foe. It showed a stork bearing a child and the swaddling cloth dated 1940. It indicated a second world war.
To add to it, the absolute disintegration of the German currency in order to pay reparations. The 50 million mark postage stamp and so on. Germany almost went communist after.
On the cemetery so sacred to Canadians, I think it shows a certain degeneracy. Possibly no backbone, who knows?. Yet, in countless other cemetaries, British, Commonwealth graves are absolutely imaculate in France- I have seen the photographs. I presume the doughboys have their cemeteries well tended. (Over there, over there).
Lastly, the Marshall plan saved Germany. I do not think they remember. No more blood shed for Europe. (Says I).
Thank you.
Ah...l’amour, toujours l’amour.
b). Most French do not love 'Muzzies,' a large part of why they do not want Turkey to join the EU.
Bash the relevant people (for this thread) who deserve bashing.
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