HAMILTON, Ont. — A memorial for soldiers killed in Afghanistan is complete and will be installed in Trenton, Ont., on Friday.
Workers at HGH Granite in Hamilton took meticulous care to complete the five pieces of the memorial that will be placed just outside CFB Trenton at Bain Park and officially unveiled on Nov. 10.
About 175 family members of the fallen will come from across Canada for the unveiling.
No disrespect to this post but you have to put this under its own thread ..
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2012/10/20121027-074022.html
Black folks were not let into a club that were not regulars because of recent brawls between a few ethnic groups and the media is getting into a tizy!!
These workers need to be commended.
They have done an amazing thing that may not have happened at all if it had been left to normal channels.
They shall grow not old,as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Prayers for the family of a prairie boy David Braun and especially his Mom Patty Braun, last years Silver Cross Mother.
“The $1.2-million project, spearheaded entirely by volunteers and funded solely by Canadians without any government assistance, is a permanent memorial honouring the 158 soldiers who died in Afghanistan”
as it should be
I have a special gratitude towards our “soldiers” as I was born in a FREE Netherlands, thanks to the sacrifice of CANADIAN soldiers!!!!
NME666 at October 27, 2012 8:51 PM
Indeed, prayers for, and eternal gratitude to all North American and allied soldiers, like the Free Polish Brigades, who sacrificed it all so others could benefit.
It is uterly shameful that these very dearly won freedoms are being squandered by the elite’s cultural self hatred, and pandering moral equivalency.
PM Harper went to Afghanistan at least twice. Unprecedented in Canadian history.
I know I appreciate the service of these brave Men & Women.
This is probably the fastesed tracked memorial in our History as well.
These people did us all proud plus still do.
I can’t help but bring up something along the same vein that’s been bugging me.
Have you ever seen pictures from Afghanistan from the 50’s,60’s and 70’s?
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a_time_in_afghanistan
That being said, I fear that once the western forces all leave Afghanistan, the memorial in place at the Kandahar Airfield will quickly become something the locals want gone.
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/commun/ml-fe/photo-eng.asp?id=6278
Spending a little government cash to dismantle it, pack it up and bring it home would receive my support.
I don’t really care where they set it back up, but on Canadian soil, not in some foreign land with a history of the desecration of religious artifacts and memorials.
Well, don’t I feel stupid.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1086327–kandahar-war-memorial-heading-to-canada
Lincoln’s words from the Gettysburg dedication resonate today:
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/fort_hood_and_the_election.html#ixzz2AbfumB2p
My dad did his basic training at Trenton in 1938. He would be proud that this memorial is located there.