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« on: May 30, 2012, 1802 UTC »
I agree, not just because I'm also Canadian but because I came from a military family and the war was very real for many of us. But even in Canada we are comparatively untouched by war. You need to go to places that lost even more to see people that really appreciate what they have. Russia in particular, but France, Holland, Belgium etc.
As a young child in the mid '60's I recall watching old war film footage in school before rememberance day. Even after nearly 50 years the images of people being machine gunned and buried (some were still alive) still remain fresh in my mind.
I was driving through France a few years ago with my wife's cousin who was a child in France in WWII. We would drive past fields where farmers still farm around several hundred white crosses in their fields and treat those crosses with reverence and respect. We would drive through villages and he would point to a village square and point out in broken English: "Here the Germans shot 60" and "here the Germans killed 35". Even after 60 years the pain and sorrow are still very evident. Winner or loser, victor or vanquished, soldier or civilian, war sucks. It's not fun or glorious, it just sucks. Lest we forget.
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