I’m often conflicted by Remembrance Day. Is it about honouring veterans because they were brutalized? Or is it about honouring their service to the country? Or is it about something else? What do you think? https://billhulet.substack.com/p/meditation-on-a-poppy
Young men died to protect the idea that people should be free to make their own choices. Canada hasn’t been invaded since the war of 1812. These were lives lost in the pursuit of virtue.
Which war was that? I can’t recall any about that.
Both world wars. Canada got involved to protect other nations from imperialism and fascism. Canadian men died for the sake of others so that they may be free of tyranny. People need to remember that sacrifice.
The Nazis almost won that war. People talk lightly about systemic racism when really they have no idea what systemic racism would have looked like if it wasn’t for their sacrifice. There wouldn’t have been anyone left alive to complain about the system if that system was in place.
That’s a pretty ahistorical take on them.
WW1 was for our (Britain’s) imperialism and WW2 was because Germany was getting too powerful.