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Paix, mon ami.
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We had a huge turnout at the Remembrance Day service in Victoria, estimates of 5,000-6000 people (for this town, that is HUGE). It was a long service, an hour at least. Here's a trio of images I took I thought I would share here: DSCN1569.jpg
The Lt. Govenor of BC, Steven Point, salutes the veterans
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Originally Posted by BigDL
...I remember the waste and uselessness of war and I pray that Canada’s Armed Forces return to their Peace Keeping role.
Like the 29 years in Cyprus? Or our involvement in Rwanda where we stood idly by and watched countless innocents be slaughtered?
Peace keeping through military involvement, despite it's noble intentions is a fallacy at least in every example thus far attempted. It is a way for Western States to pacify their conscious for not picking a side as to who is right and who is wrong and pretend to make a difference.
Either stay out of it or truly get involved. Sitting on the fence doesn't do anything to help lessen the duration and suffering of any war.
A military presence in a war zone without full engagement, where the "Peace Keepers" are impotent is useless and a waste. If you want to peace keep without "picking a side" then do it through diplomacy, troops on the ground have proven themselves over and over and to be nothing more than a waste of time and resources and in certain circumstances only serves to prolong the dispute.
For true military peace keeping to exist one has to be a combatant, not an observer.
Do our own "peace keepers" (the police) merely watch the mayhem without moral guidelines upon which they determine whether or not to "become involved" as a coercive force? Of course not.
Why should the rules of engagement when it comes to "peace keeping" be so impotent. If military "peace keepers" see wrong being done they should be able to coercively (combatively) intervene regardless of which side is the perpetrator and without actual engagement against the peace keepers by the aggressor as a prerequisite of engagement on their part.
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My 11 year old daughter wrote the following poem for school that I'd thought I'd share:
While poppies blow
And spirits grow
We will remember
On that November
The ones that died
And those who cried
So thanks is not enough
For the soldiers that are very tough
The crosses will always be white
So now we don't have the sight
Of bombs and guns
And soldiers fighting with their sons
So in flanders fields where soldiers lay
We will remember them that day
Give her a Dr.G. gold star ............. and another Sinc "high five". Paix, mon ami.
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read these books." Mark Twain
We had a huge turnout at the Remembrance Day service in Victoria, estimates of 5,000-6000 people (for this town, that is HUGE). It was a long service, an hour at least. Here's a trio of images I took I thought I would share here: Attachment 11213
The Lt. Govenor of BC, Steven Point, salutes the veterans
Kudos to the vets and the fallen on Armistice/Remembrance Day. I spent 11/11 in Berlin, and didn't see any sign of this - no poppies, no war commemoration(s). Not surprising, being that I was among the folks who started it.
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Kudos to the vets and the fallen on Armistice/Remembrance Day. I spent 11/11 in Berlin, and didn't see any sign of this - no poppies, no war commemoration(s). Not surprising, being that I was among the folks who started it.
Miss G., there was a big ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, with German officials there to commemorate Armistice Day.
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