As we remember the 90th Anniversary of "VIMY RIDGE" let us not forget the young innocence that fought for our "Rights", and those who continue to do so without hesitation.
Keep it moving, please,
It is the VETERAN , not the preacher,
Who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the VETERAN , not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the VETERAN , not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the VETERAN , not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the VETERAN , not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the VETERAN ,
who salutes the Flag,
It is the veteran ,
who serves under the Flag,
ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.
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4 comments:
The Canadian touch thing is bull. Poets, politicians, student organizers, reporters, etc won us the rights described, not soldiers. Soldiers take orders from the powers that be and have usually fought to stop the advancement of individual freedoms that limit the power of the ruling elite.
You might claim soldiers defended those rights in WWII but that's about it. Other wars were more about imperialism than my rights and freedoms.
The current war in Afghanistan is a waste of good young people who wish to serve Canada and the world by doing something important. However as usual they are being used to promote interests that it is not politically correct to talk about. (The blood lust of Harper and the Canadian military command)
WWI was never about Canadian rights it was about King and Empire. Which great rights was it fought over? None. Sure women got the vote but no soldier went to war to get it for them.
What was it really about? Germany wanted to get an empire, which meant bits of the world controlled by France and Britain would perhaps become German.
Not France mind you. If Germany had won then they would have imposed a humiliating peace on France as they had in 1871, taken over France's overseas empire and that would have been it until the next war.
Stop trying to glorify and romanticize that waste of humanity by mouthing the popular myths about why it happened and why it was fought. It is nothing but a desperate attempt to make all those deaths appear to have meaning. The youth of today deserve better.
Well lets ask all the poets, politicans, student organizers, reporters, priests, activists, that were marched of to death camps.(I am sure they must have done that of thier own free will) Lets ask all the teachers in afganistan that are being targeted and executed by insurgents, Just becasue they want to edjucat the youth of today.
You cant honestly believe that our soldiers are there in afganistane for "Blood lust" ?
In terms of WW1, from the UK/Dominions/Empire side it was all about allowing the Belgians to live under the government of their choice - at least officially. Had the UK/Dominions/Empire not entered the war, continental Europe would have been dominated by a German military dictatorship.
As for who won the original rights, you have to look all the way back to when they first became rights with the Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest back in 1200 or so. King John only granted those rights because the Barons threatened to "levy war" against him if he didn't, and he believed that he would lose. Historically it has been the threat of applied violence that has restrained any monarchs who wished to remove these rights.
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