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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SofaSpud who wrote (1982)	3/7/2003 3:44:28 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37068

Imagine the change they have seen - to be at Vimy you would have to be born in 1900 or before ... the world atlas had all those rosey-pink bits conveniently placed where you could go in peace as a british subject ... maybe you remembered Victoria, and some at that battle, long dead now, would have remembered Albert, Disraeli, Gladstone, Sir John A One old guy i knew was a horse breeder/trader when war broke out, he had introduced far superior stock [and possibly the first stock] of one breed to one region of the country, and had done well .... he was away from home on declaration of war, joined up where he was, and didn't get back home on leave for weeks ... when he got there a letter was waiting, saying his horses were now the property of the army and he was to care for them well until the army took them, no mention of compensation whatsoever ..... only many months later, more than a year as i recall, did he get a cheque in the mail, for about three times their pre-war value And that wasn't 1914, that was 1939 .... he was born in '13, recalled the armistice just barely, as a small child, he had uncles in the '14-'18 war, and they didn't all come back, those who did were not the same .... at about the age of fourteen this man became known in his area for taking on a haying contract on ground where even horses could not work, doing it entirely himself with scythe and pitchfork, with the goal of buying his first horse, but times were tough that year and all the money was needed for winter food That wasn't so long ago, yet it gets lost, along with all else ... such is life, of course, but maybe it is a national trait to overdo the speed of forgetting 'In some ways the very concept of "hero" seems to conflict with traditional views of what it means to be Canadian. Marshall McLuhan described us as "the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the national ego-trippers of other lands." And even though our history is full of great acts and great people, Northrop Frye contended that we are "a country which has manifested a great deal of courage but has never responded with much warmth to charismatic leadership."' nlc-bnc.ca No military listed here [that's probably canehjun eh] - nlc-bnc.ca