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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (41124)11/11/2005 10:18:34 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 90947
 
"It's Canada's business who the archduke of the Austria-Hungarian Empire is?"

I said we went to war to protect values. I include all wars in which we went to war--and all values which justified those sacrifices.

Some of those values are:

loyalty to allies

Protection of freedom and democracy

Belief in individual rights

And the safeguarding of Canadian citizens from the threat of foreign invasion.

Canada does not stand alone in the world. We are part of a network of allies whom have shed blood together more than once in the past. No man is an island says a Donne poem. And that is what Remembrance Day is all about...