Cnews.canoe.ca, May 3 ’05: Dutch town thanks Canadian troops (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/05/03/1023668-cp.html)

“It was one of the biggest events in a week of activities planned to honour the survivors and remember the more than 7,600 Canadians killed in the nine-month campaign to free Holland from its Nazi occupiers.”

Let’s talk about the dead for a moment. There is a lot of talk by others, and it’s right to honour those who have fallen, but we haven’t heard from them in a long time.

How many joined up? How many were conscripted? Were they pushed into sacrificing their lives? Did they fight one kind of tyrant so we could have another? Did they fight for freedom, or for the current system of taxes and regulations? Did they die for bans on hate speech? No, I don’t think so.

They died because they were expected to. Their blood is used to sanctify the lie of our half-baked “freedom” and no one must question it. Remember all those years we lived in terror of nuclear annihilation? That was “freedom” too, but all it proved was that life was cheap in the 20th century. Now the enemy is Islamic terrorists – and our allies, Britain and the United States – do their best to generate as many enemies as possible with their war in Iraq.

Whenever the next big War comes, the Canadian media and government have the examples already laid out for us with their many World War II anniversaries and empty rhetoric – the examples of sacrifice for all of us to follow.

Make sure you are not one of those who expect young people to die overseas in foreign wars.

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