Posted 11/11/2013 12:19 pm
My grand-daddy was in the Battle of Sicily fighting for Canada.
Weird thing is, we laud these people collectively, even though a lot of them had their share of problems after the war. My GP was an alcoholic and died when I was pretty young. All of the stories I hear about him are mixed. Sometimes all we think about is the war they went through, but we forget about the war they bring home with them. We all appreciate them in our own way. Most important is their health (physical, mental), and their loving families. Forget war because it glosses over the real pain that's harder to see when juxtaposed.
These days it'll take a lot more convincing to make any of our countrymen take any arms - just look at our youth today; admit it they are weak with their TV, drugs... We ain't Spartans, that's for sure.
Weird thing is, we laud these people collectively, even though a lot of them had their share of problems after the war. My GP was an alcoholic and died when I was pretty young. All of the stories I hear about him are mixed. Sometimes all we think about is the war they went through, but we forget about the war they bring home with them. We all appreciate them in our own way. Most important is their health (physical, mental), and their loving families. Forget war because it glosses over the real pain that's harder to see when juxtaposed.
These days it'll take a lot more convincing to make any of our countrymen take any arms - just look at our youth today; admit it they are weak with their TV, drugs... We ain't Spartans, that's for sure.
