A couple of interesting facts I came upon. About the last soldiers killed in WWI. So near yet so far. The Canadian died at 10:58AM and the American died at 10:59AM
1. George Lawrence Price. Private George Lawrence Price (December 15, 1892 – November 11, 1918) was a Canadian soldier. He is traditionally recognized as the last soldier of the British Empire to be killed during the First World War.
Details here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lawrence_Price
2. Henry Nicholas John Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) was an American soldier and the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11 a.m. Details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gunther
I was only a toddler in London, England during the war. My memory of it is almost non-existent. However, my memory of what it did to my mother and father is quite clear. Five years of fighting completely broke my father and five years of surviving wartime London left my mother a very bitter woman. Both of them carried their war years with them to the grave.
This poem is a Russian one, author unknown.
A SONG FOR MY SON
Do not call me Father
Do not seek me
Do not call me
Do not wish me back
We’re on a route uncharted
Fire and blood erase our trail
On we fly on wings of thunder
Nevermore to sheath our swords
All of us in battle fallen
Not to be brought back by words
Will there be a rendezvous?
I know not
I only know we still must fight
We are but sand grains in the infinite
Never to meet, nevermore to see light
Farewell then my son
Farewell then my conscience
My youth and my solace
My one and my only
And let this farewell
Be the end of a story
Of solitude vast
And which none is more lonely
In which you remain barred
Forever and ever
From light and from air
With your death pangs untold
Untold and un-soothed
Not to be resurrected
Forever and ever
An eighteen year old
No trains ever come from these regions
Unscheduled or scheduled
No aeroplanes fly there
Farewell then my son
For no miracles happen there
As in this world
Dreams do not come true
Farewell
I will dream of you still as a baby
Treading the earth with little strong toes
The earth where already so many lie buried
This song to my son then
Has come to its close
Quillette Podcast 1 – Jordan Peterson on the Dreadful Attraction of Utopian Ideas
Historically, with free and open debate about ideas, bad/failed ideas get to die off in contrast with better ideas or even due to e.i. utopian ideas inherent internal contradictions with reality. Scientific method is particularly useful here.
But totalitarian collectivism abhors critical thought, stamping it out of the brains of it’s proponents figuratively and literally if allowed to do so. . Then instead of bad ideas dying. It is people who die off in the conflict of ideas.
We call that war. This is something to reflect on it being 100 years after the first Armistice Day.
Deep under the Arctic Ocean, American submarine Captain Joe Glass (Gerard Butler, Olympus Has Fallen, 300) is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress when he discovers a secret Russian coup is in the offing, threatening to dismantle the world order. With crew and country on the line, Captain Glass must now assemble an elite group of Navy SEALs to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and sneak through enemy waters to stop WWIII.
Watched it last night on kodi…. very good sub story and not a bad all round flick at all. I said the identical thing to my wife..best one since Hunt for Red October.
First 30 veterans or serving members that go to Buckstop in Vancouver for dinner on Monday have their meals prepaid by me. Hope to see you there. Ubique.
Good and a salute for you.
I served in the PPCLI for 10 years.
This past summer, my youngest son joined the Forces as an Infantry Officer Cadet.
The fact that he will spend hours stomping on a cold, wintery Parade Square today, whilst I will observe a minute silence from the comfort of my couch (no formal services in Mexico), fills me with joy, happiness and smugness.
And son, if you’re reading this, thank you for your service. You’ll still be responsible for walking the dogs when you come home for Christmas leave.
My niece’s husband grad. RMC, served in Croatia with the PPCLI and had nightmares for quite a while after he came home. Another one of those “you don’t know who the enemy is” and you can hear the screaming at night knowing someone is being tortured and there’s nothing you can do about it.
God bless your son. I hope he never has to go into battle.
Soldiers who can’t kill the enemy and have to live in fear of being killed by the enemy quite often have problems. There is something to be said for being victorious.
Yes, ROE that remove ambiguity allowing soldiers to complete their task would, in my view, solve many cases of subsequent PTSD.
Im utterly convinced, given a different life path, in a certain situation my attitude would be (as far as fear of death = cant shoot straight) that ‘well der hb, keep yer eyes open, yer head down, and take as many of dem wit’ ya as ya possibly can.’
I would like to be remember that way given that alternate life path.
display an unholy viciousness in the face of tyranny. a defiant acceptance and ‘on with the task at hand’.
“Im doin’ it fer my buddies further back of the line ya assholes. and speaking of assholes, a bunch of ya are gonna get a spare one”
I detest violence. especially when directed at me and my loved ones. it aint just the threat posed, but the FACT some fcukface has now given me no choice but to apply that thing which I find so distasteful. so be it. all on THEM.
My uncle died at age 15 at the Somme on Sept. 15, 1916. He’s buried in a small cemetery in the middle of a farmer’s field, off the beaten track. I’m the only member of the family to have visited his grave.
But, a very interesting story came to light when an English group who make regular visits to the battlefields and cemeteries found the story and photos of a 16-yr old (actually 15) while searching for information on him on the Canadian Virtual War Memorial website. They found the names of the co-authors of the book Gananoque Remembers and managed to contact us Their interest began this way:
When she was 17 years old, a Welsh student while on a school trip visited this out-of-the-way cemetery. When she saw my uncle’s marker, she was struck both by his age – 16 and his mother’s simple inscription: “Mother’s Darling”. She describes her feeling “I was wandering around the cemetery looking for someone else’s relative at the time. It was a beautiful warm September day, so typical of Somme weather, and as I stood looking at Will’s headstone and read that inscription it forged a link that has never dissipated across the intervening years. It was a moment of complete poignancy and comprehension of the true cost of war, the impact of which has never left me.”
Thirty years later as she’s researching to do a presentation at his grave with a group that tour regularly she wrote:
” I came across the entry of Will on the website and was astounded to suddenly find myself looking in to the face of the young man who had, for so many years, been an important component of many a battlefield pilgrimage – and may I say just what a handsome young face it was! Golly!! What a peach!! What a charmer!! And I was absolutely delighted with all the extra information, also there, to be able to have some background of substance that could ‘flesh out’ the scant information I held prior to that which would enable me to centre the focus where it should be – on the man concerned.”
She learned that William Edward Dailey was one of Canada ’s youngest war dead. When he enlisted as a bugler in August 1915, he was only age 14. On his attestation paper, he wrote that he was born 12 November 1898 rather than1900 and was accepted even though this still made him age 16 and well below the minimum enlistment age of 18.
Meanwhile his mother was trying to get him sent home, but he wrote to her: “You won’t be able to get me back because buglers are needed for gas attacks.” and wrote again in July: ” I am going to the trenches tonight. I suppose I shall see some great sights over there. I didn’t have to go unless I wanted but I volunteered as there are only the two of us left. My kit is already to move in a few minutes. Be sure to tell Leona (a pen friend in Lindsey) if I get killed. I told her you would. Good-bye. Yours lovingly, Willie.”
Besides his parents, he was leaving five younger siblings.
After arriving in France, the boys joined the 4th Infantry Bn which then moved to the front lines on 4 September. On the night of 6/7 September, he was killed while he was part of a working party which was extending trenches toward the German lines only 150 meters away.
A mother in Gan received a letter from her son which told her the sad news: ” I am sorry to say that young Dailey was killed on the 7th of September . He was killed by a sniper in no-man’s land and the men gave him a decent burial in the cemetery nearby.” He wrote again that Willie’s mother was distraught and writing them hoping to find out more information but none could add anything to what she already knew. He asked his mother to visit the grieving mother.
In August 2008, the British group made a touching presentation at Willie’s grave. A piper played a few melodies and Mary Ellen, who had first visited his grave 30 years earlier, read the story from the book Gananoque Remembers co-authored by his niece and ret’d Maj. Bill Beswetherick. Wilf Schofield who had also been in touch set up a telephone call so that I could hear it live. It’s amazing that there are these two one-time strangers, now dear friends, who are ensuring that the sacrifice of my uncle will not be forgotten in their lifetime. Hopefully that tiny cemetery won’t be missed with all the activity that will be going on during this special year of the 100th anniversary of the end of that bloody war. Rest in Peace, all you boys who never got to see Canada again and God Bless.
What a nice story. Thanks, Gellen.
Ms. Gellen,
Your uncle’s story is extremely moving. William Edward Dailey was very mature for his age and displayed a strong sense of duty and responsibility.
It probably is likely that he would’ve been very proud of you were he to have known that you would be writing about him 102 years after his death.
The latter was likely meant to be. If I recall, your birthday is in August, the same month that he enlisted, only in 1915. He also probably likely would’ve been impressed that this written memory about himself would’ve been delivered via electronic means, a new and wonderful invention since his time, and sent to the world in the month of his very own birthday, the month of November and his own 120th birthday, tomorrow.
It is very moving that you listened to a touching presentation by a British group at your uncle’s grave via telephone in 2008. Their dedication to Remembrance Day is commendable.
Thank you for his story. May the soldiers of war R.I.P.
Nancy
…”They are not dead, not even broken,
Only their dust has gone back home to the earth;
For they, the essential they, shall have rebirth
Whenever a word of them is spoken.”
Mary Gilmore
Thank you.
GReat Story..thank you for sharing that..!!
An addition proves how amazingly strong we, the human race, are. My grfa died two yrs later which left my grmo with a small govt pension since Willie was her eldest son and thus considered her support. She then lost her 2nd-youngest son to leukemia when he was 7 yrs old. She never showed the strain of earning money by doing laundry for the islanders but kept a straight back, head held high, and bid her youngest son a cheery adieu as he headed off for his trip overseas in 1942 (and returned, thank God).
When we think of people like the Trudeaus, we must remember that they are the effete of the nation. They are a small group and we have to quit electing them.
Every Remembrance Day I reflect about my late parents and what they went through during WW II. My mother (born in Spain) had to act as a servant to a Vichy French officer in Algiers, Algeria, during her late teens. My father was a Morse code operator, in an artillery battalion half-track, in Patton’s army. After visiting an extermination camp at the close of the war, he suffered a nervous breakdown and spent two months in a mental hospital. He was never fully well during the rest of his life.
Once during my third year at U of Ottawa, I complained about the long line-ups at the bookstore. My parents replied that their war experience was all about long lines. They taught me to bring something to read while waiting in line, as they did.
Originally from Haarlem Holland, we emigrated here in 1957.
My father wouldn’t often talk about his experiences during the war…howver I do know that in 1941 he was rounded up along with all other military aged men and sent off to labour kamps in Germany. He spent 3 & 1/2 years behind the wire…working in a factory that produced instrumentation for the Bf109 and later for the FW190. His contribution to the war effort in the early part of his incarceration was to ensure a box of insturmentaion would strangely enough be dropped on the ground smashing the internals of said instruments…of course out of sight from the Germans.
His camp was situated and abutted an Airfield which on occasion came under attack by US P-38 Lightnings..he was on his bicycle as a message courier during one attack…Told me that it was the most frightening he had ever experienced…told he he figured they were diving right on him.
Many years later, in early 2003, he applied to the German Govt for reparations – having toiled for Krupp but was denied cause his “papieren” . Were not in order. Typical German BS….he was pissed and rightfully so. He ended up writing to a slave labour organization (not sure who or what), to see if they could help, alas they could not, but they published his letter in their monthly newsletter. 3 Months after it being published, he got a letter from Italy – His Bunk mate of near 60 years prior wrote to say hello….when he told me that, it was the only time I saw my Father with tears in his eyes.
He passed away this past July 13 – @ 93 yrs. His Hatred of the Nazi’s never abated, but he NEVER showed it…always laughing and clowning around. RIP Dad…we miss you and we love you..!!
The Sunday Toronto Star reminds us that Remembrance Day is all about Great Leader Justin. Large picture on the front page of feminist Trudeau walking up the steps at the Vimy Memorial. Just ignore that his father refused to fight in World War Two and liked to bike around with a German helmet on his head. According to the Star, Remembrance Day is also about gender equity. Carefully chosen letter to the editor on why a woman doesn’t wear a poppy because not enough attention is given to women who stayed at home during the wars.
This vet of THREE Afghanistan deployments is telling the Toronto Red Star -and its libtard staff – to collectively go fuck themselves.
Well said Ray.
Never forget that this POS doesn’t care about veterans or his country.
THAT is the most disgusting, obscene thing I have seen in a long, long time. The fact that anyone would be unashamed to be in that pretentious pose….. what a tart!!
Don’t people projectile vomit when they see that, or have we lost our collective sense of shame, or of honour for those who actually wore that uniform?
Man Dad enlisted early and he was one of the fortunate one’s. He was never shipped out of Canada and did no direct fighting. He never considered himself a vet because he had never fought, even though he was given a burial and funeral service that could be considered military by the local legion.
Toronto star and the moon calf can both go to h—-l
I totally agree.
I shudder to remember tales of his father cavorting about Canada while others his age and younger were fighting for what we have today. L
I second that motion.
A WWII veteran who belonged to our Legion branch had a story about Vimy that I thought was interesting. After D-day him and his comrades were marching through that area and even though Vimy was not directly on their route the sergeant insisted they march by the memorial for a look. What a moving experience that must have been for those fighting men in uniform.
“Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow”
Once upon a time England had no empire — and there were no world wars. After England (violently) acquired other peoples land to build an empire two world wars took place.
After the empire was over, world wars were over too.
(My job is not to connect the dots. I give you the dots, you decide whether to connect them or not.)
“After the empire was over, world wars were over too”
The millions killed in conflicts around the world since 1945 are testament to the error of your ignorant simplification.
Once upon a time Germany and France and Austria Hungary and Russia had empires and there were world wars, now they don’t, and there are still lots of wars, it’s just that we aren’t involved in them. That’s not right, we are still involved in them.
Let me try that again. Once upon a time Germany decided they needed to invade Poland, and Japan decided it needed to invade China, and this led to a word war. And before that, Germany decided to invade France, and it led to a world war.
Just some dots to consider.
And led us not forget the United Kingdom who enslaved more people than the rest put together.
You have no knowledge of history
The atomic bomb put an end to world wars. Our masters lost their taste for them once they figured out there was no way to hedge their investments against a nuclear winter.
They continue to bankroll smaller-scale wars wherever it’s potentially profitable for themselves or their Chinese or Muslim business partners.
This is just a ridiculous over-simplification. It’s not even wrong.
Go reproduce with yourself raghead.
Jizwand you need a drink of reality.
Why are you people arguing with an ungrateful immigrant whose family shits in the streets?
Says a mooselimb whose vile cult is responsible for more conquest and more death worldwide than any other ideology/entity.
P.S. Thank God civilized people conquered half the world, savages cannot be trusted with its reaches.
This past September visited the grave of my dad’s twin brother, in Normandy. Within sight of Juno Beach. He passed two days after turning 23. Every day is remembrance for I carry his name.
Have you or someone put his photo and grave marker photo on the CVWM site? I hope so. It’s a dream of mine that every man’s page will have something. My father’s cousin was flying a Spitfire on D-day and a few wks later he was shot down as he was on a reconnaissance flight near Caen. My grmo had photos in her collection and I was able to add to his page, also finding information re a forced landing he had had to make a couple of days after D-Day in his service file on Ancestry. That is, if you don’t know about CVWM and the easy accessibility of his service files. Not everyone does, but you could.
My sisters and I will go to the cemetary today to honour our mother and father. Dad served 3 years in the RCAF and was on his way to the Pacific theater when the war ended. He spent a little over a year in England servicing bombers after they returned from raids. Many on here probably realize what a grisly experience that would have been. I was surprised yesterday when my sister told me of my father telling her that he commanded a group of women who did many of these cleanups. He told her how much he respected the job they did. I had never heard of this involvement by women before and assumed it was always men.
When my Dad joined up in ’42 my mother, in essence, did the same by traveling to eastern Canada and getting work in a defense plant. Both did their duty, returned to small town BC and were married in the spring of 1946. So many did not return. I have a hard time forgiving the Euros for the terrible cost of lives that WW I & II brought to themselves but more for Canadians and Americans.
Rizwan The only dots you could provide is if you came down with the measles.All time stupidest post I have ever read.
Exactly, but what else can we expect from this 5th columnist.
Immigrant suing Federal Government for $65 million…over 2 years detention…after he was ordered to leave the country…due to his criminal record.
In unrelated news David Millgard (a Canadian) was awarded $10 million for 25 years he spent behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
Steve, good supportive, bleeding-heart story from CBC News. Good to see the Ceeb, supported by our tax dollars, supporting criminal drug dealers.
exactamundo.
this story falls into the category ‘unintended fcukin consequences ya goddamn hoodlum’.
HIS criminal acts are the DIRECT path to the incarceration. in a just outcome that will cost him, oh, say $64,999.500.
leaving juuuuust enough for a plane ticket back to the shythole whence it came.
the precedent naturally is khadr’s win of the justin TURDoo lottery.
I think someone must have told him that this trick is pretty easy to pull off under Canada’s Liberal government.
There were at least one hundred land wars every year on the Indian subcontinent during the two hundred years before the British Empire took control. Hundreds of little monarchies flinging their armies at each other at the drop of a hat, local elites enjoying their plotting and intrigues, keeping the peasants busy, ensuring a surplus of young women, any totalitarian ruling class in the world would do the same if they could…
Thank you to those above who have thoughtful family history to relate. Fifty years ago I never had to go to a combat zone, nor was I asked to. More recently a, at least one member of my old regiment was killed in Afghanistan. My nephew, from another unit, did two tours in Afghanistan and was involved in combat and had friends killed. He is suffering from PTSD, but has a fantastic wife who is able to help him with this.
Now a not so great current military story. It is a little confusing as to what their offense was. Who knows what the real story is, as I no longer trust the media or the PC political hacks to tell us the truth.
“Four Canadian Forces soldiers who operated a Calgary-based online military surplus store have been suspended from the military following allegations they catered to a white supremacist clientele.”
If they were selling Che or Soviet paraphernalia they would no doubt be applauded.
I scratched by head on that one. Rhodesians were people too. Selling memorabilia from a 40 year defunct regime is somehow racist?? Collectors aren’t racist. I have a few Hitler stamps among thousands without his picture. I guess I’m racist too. I guess white privilege does that to you. You know, the white privilege earned by taking a dump in an outhouse in the dark at 40 below.
Interesting how the Zimbabwe regime which replaced the Rhodesian regime is equally, if not more, racist and polite company says nothing.
I will remember my 26 comrades who never returned home following our Battle Group TF-AFG deployment in 2007.
Lest We Forget.
Was just googling Ortona.
What a waste .
As the years go by I wonder if the effort was all a waste.
My father volunteered,spent Xmas 43 pinned down in the dark,talking to a freshly blinded Kiwi, thro a brick wall.
As the injured could not be evacuated.
Now we have done to ourselves,everything he said he fought to prevent.
So did we learn the lessons both wars presented us?
Or does every generation have to make the same mistakes ?
Maybe the real enemies are not without but within, the Stupid Evil Bastards,with delusions of adequacy,every society has them,we became too soft to banish them.
Hence we are now slaves to our government.
Without property or personal rights.
It crossed my mind that if Dads generation was still alive they would be hunting most of our current politicians and bureaucrats with out any mercy at all.
But we did this to ourselves.
Well said and so true. Our current government is as you say, only so slowly implemented most people do not realize it.
We did it to ourselves…so much for democracy. IMO the worst evil today is a media intent on inserting itself into the politics of the country as opposed to reporting the facts and allowing people to decide for themselves.
One man calling them what they are is US President Donald Trump, he made it in spite of them. This needs to be done here as well.
Our governments were far more obnoxious and evil in the 1940s than they are today. In the ’40s there existed the draft ie slavery, internment camps, price and wage controls and the rest of the as yet untruncated New Deal, Jim Crow, etc.
On the positive side they did a much better job at keeping turd worlders where they belong.
The obnoxious ones have just gone underground. They’ll be back.
JR, are you referring to the Cdn Vichy Party aka LIEberals?
No, all of them are guilty.
We have allowed generational theft in the form of the debt.
We have lived large on the investments of our forefathers while “investing” in welfare.
We have allowed theft by government to rise so high that couples are financially punished for having children.
And we have allowed bureaucratic intrusion to become so normal that even the planned theft of banking information does not seem to bother Canadians.
We work to the benefit of the state longer than we work to benefit ourselves.
We accept blatant lying about these costs as normal.Has any accountant bothered to point out that 2/3 of the cost of housing and feeding ourselves is the cost of government imposed on the businesses?
50% is the income tax,no one in any Canadian political party dares calculate the actual indirect theft,hidden in material costs,transport and regulations..
Of course most could not if they tried,being numerically illiterate products of our public education system.
Never forget modern Canada’s tradition ;”Go along to get along”.
Dismantling our kleptocracy is just too radical.
Western men are re-discovering the manly virtues of Greece and Rome that sustained them on battlefield from Troy to Ypres.
Saw a pic of bongo sitting beside Bibi. Is it me but doesn’t bongo always look very uncomfortable in the presence of unassailable masculine authority? He knows he doesn’t measure up.
We should have Vice-Admiral Mark Norman representing Canada there.
Bibi is increasingly assailed by anti-corruption investigations.
He is increasingly assailed by witchhunters, generously bankrolled by diaspora apostates, who want him removed from office amd replaced with someone more willing to sell the Land of Israel to Amalek.
Cool story bro.
Bibi is assaulted just like Trump is assaulted, just like Judge Kavanaugh is assaulted, just like Tucker Carlson is assaulted … by leftists bent on silencing and destroying the opposition. According to their credo … “by any means necessary”. Slowly, all the rational people of Western Nation’s see through the ruse. The left are sick, sick, puppies.
“We should have Vice-Admiral Mark Norman representing Canada there.”
If the Conservatives are elected he should be appointed Chief of Defense Staff. The Liberals are trying him for releasing secrets that weren’t secret. Norman was acting to support government policy. His only crime was not supporting Justin’s efforts to double the price of a supply ship contract and give it to friends of the Liberal Party.
Neither Canada nor America should ever have been involved in this most colossally stupid and pointless of wars.
And the Kaiser should never have tried to conquer France and Russia with the help of his Muslim friends, yet here we are.
And the Germans learned nothing from the experience, and have never paid in any meaningful way for their crimes. Today, in 2018, the border of the Russian Federation should be the Rhine.
I agree our boys died in vain. The bigshots saw to that.
Sure shove all Eastern Europe under the boot of the subhuman Siberian Mongols, that will show Ze Germans. Cretin. Siberian Mongols should have been wiped with nukes in 1945, one shithole city after another, starting with the most populous ones.
I agree.
Collosally stupid, collosally pointless.
Look at our totalitarian world.
Look at the EU dubbed by some as the EUSSR.
I mean no disrespect for the fallen who, if they could, would agree while rubbing their eyes in disbelief.
Paleocon Pat Buchanan agrees too.
The hard core libertarian — anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard — thought we should only fight when WE are invaded and not with massed armies but via guerilla action.
The American founding fathers did not want standing armies.
You agree? Then you’re an idiot like the other two. The problem was not with frighting the war. The problem was not wiping out the commies afterwards. The civilized world had no moral right to loosen its grip on the planet after such sacrifices. If Siberian Mongols have been vaporized we would not have to worry about Chicoms or mooselimbs today. Isolationism is a religion of slow surrender, that is why UnMes who hate the civilization support it.
To the tune of Vivaldi’s rain, also known as the largo from winter in The Four Seasons.
Requiem for the fallen
The horns and the pipes are calling
In Trenches, muddy,
On the ships, out at sea
The airmen on the breeze
‘Ere by guns or disease
Many fell.
Beloved Sons
And fathers… gone
Most every one
Is sorely miss-ed
God keep you until we meeeeeet again.
Requiem for the fallen
You’re gone but not forgotten
We gather in the winds of autumn
We’ll walk well-worn paths
to the old cenotaphs
Where your brothers come back
To salute…
As the poppies on our hearts say, we remember,
So we gather at these places each November
In peace, rest, remembered ones
Since meetings make themselves on time, close enough for PM Trudeau for the 100th anniversary of the 11th hour Armistice.
“Arriving a few minutes late, they (Trudeau, Mercel and UN Secretary) missed the exact moment to commemorate the armistice that ended World War I. Fighter jets passed overhead as the leaders walked to the Arc de Triomphe.”
That triumvirate says it all imho. Such disrespectful idiots.
It would be fine if they all just stayed home. This yearly ritual achieves nothing.
You’re an idiot without respect. You should stay home.
“Trump didn’t even show because rain.” That was just the excuse. In fact, there may have been a security issue. Seems to be being kept under wraps. Looks like the globalists are getting desperate.
No one was unaffected. My father was born in 1903 so he missed the First War because he was too young. Being 36 in 1939, although attempting to enlist many times, he was considered too old for the infantry. I believe he was always slightly embarrassed that so many went and he could not. He spent WWII making Hurricanes, however. God bless them all.
My grfa, born in Eng. in 1871, enlisted in Jan. 1917, and served behind the front lines but close enough to get shell shock from lack of sleep. On his attestation form he lied about his date of birth making himself age 42 to sneak in just under the cut-off age. He lost the eyesight in one eye when dodging a shell and striking a post. A local man enlisted in the same month giving his birthdate as 1867 and was sent to serve for a while just behind the front also. He actually was born in 1847 and had fought in the Civil War. After 8 months working with the railway troops, his age was discovered. When King George V learned of this story, he asked to meet the “oldest man in khaki” and invited him to a special audience at Buckingham Palace where he praised Boucher for his courage and determination.
Your father was lucky, very lucky, and building Hurricanes was an honourable contribution to the war, I’d say. My husband enlisted in the RCAF and was made a clerk, something that he never got over.
Bongo missed the celebration he went to Europe to attend……his old man missed WW11.
@gellen. Your recall and eloquence leaves me stunned. Thank you for your perspectives on this day.
Appreciate it very much!
GEC
I agree. She is a great asset to this blog.
Yes, I agree also.
hb @ 700 pm shows a link…and a photo of Ms Gellen’s uncle. Indeed, he was a very handsome fellow, like the researcher said, a “peach.” TQ hb.
I’m glad I returned to this thread this evening.
The Altering of the Deal
Two wings of the same bird…
Trump endorses Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House
“In all fairness, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be chosen Speaker of the House by the Democrats,” the president tweeted. “If they give her a hard time, perhaps we will add some Republican votes. She has earned this great honor!”
“I think I would be able to very easily supply her the votes,” Mr. Trump said, strengthening his offer to rally Republican support to her bid for speakership.
If San Fran Nan is sitting in the Speaker’s chair, does that not mean that the ONLY vote she gets is the “casting / deciding vote” in the unlikely event of a 50-50 vote split?
Thus, all she can do is; either the appointed job or, more likely, openly display her multitude of already widely known “failings”.
Don’t give a fork where son of Pierre spent this day, thankfully we didn’t have to look at him.
(pssst, yo, doan say nuthin, but, regarding pee air TURDoo’s ‘role’ during the 39-45 conflict . . . . ummmm . . . . .
me bucket list includes a wee errand involving the TURD’s burial site https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12792/pierre-elliott-trudeau
aaaaand a load of equine byproduct, aka ‘horseshyt aka horse TURDs)
jest puttin the 2 togedder fer posterity. or is that posteriority?
gawd help me I hate that goddamn closet communist.
Not exactly a fan of Lil Tater Head but I’ll give him this for his appearance today, he was able to pull a modernized version of the Nehru jacket out of his “Tickle Trunk”. It must have gone unused during his India sojourn.
Lest we forget…it is Remembrance Day 2018
https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/remember/flandersfields_e.shtml
A couple of interesting facts I came upon. About the last soldiers killed in WWI. So near yet so far. The Canadian died at 10:58AM and the American died at 10:59AM
1. George Lawrence Price. Private George Lawrence Price (December 15, 1892 – November 11, 1918) was a Canadian soldier. He is traditionally recognized as the last soldier of the British Empire to be killed during the First World War.
Details here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lawrence_Price
2. Henry Nicholas John Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) was an American soldier and the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11 a.m. Details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gunther
I was only a toddler in London, England during the war. My memory of it is almost non-existent. However, my memory of what it did to my mother and father is quite clear. Five years of fighting completely broke my father and five years of surviving wartime London left my mother a very bitter woman. Both of them carried their war years with them to the grave.
This poem is a Russian one, author unknown.
A SONG FOR MY SON
Do not call me Father
Do not seek me
Do not call me
Do not wish me back
We’re on a route uncharted
Fire and blood erase our trail
On we fly on wings of thunder
Nevermore to sheath our swords
All of us in battle fallen
Not to be brought back by words
Will there be a rendezvous?
I know not
I only know we still must fight
We are but sand grains in the infinite
Never to meet, nevermore to see light
Farewell then my son
Farewell then my conscience
My youth and my solace
My one and my only
And let this farewell
Be the end of a story
Of solitude vast
And which none is more lonely
In which you remain barred
Forever and ever
From light and from air
With your death pangs untold
Untold and un-soothed
Not to be resurrected
Forever and ever
An eighteen year old
No trains ever come from these regions
Unscheduled or scheduled
No aeroplanes fly there
Farewell then my son
For no miracles happen there
As in this world
Dreams do not come true
Farewell
I will dream of you still as a baby
Treading the earth with little strong toes
The earth where already so many lie buried
This song to my son then
Has come to its close
Quillette Podcast 1 – Jordan Peterson on the Dreadful Attraction of Utopian Ideas
https://quillette.com/2018/11/08/quillette-podcast-1-the-dreadful-attraction-of-utopian-ideas/
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L- Keep in mind two sayings of Prof. J. Peterson:
1. The Marxists are always one (more) murder away from utopia.
2. Reason has a tendency to fall in love with it’s own product.
Historically, with free and open debate about ideas, bad/failed ideas get to die off in contrast with better ideas or even due to e.i. utopian ideas inherent internal contradictions with reality. Scientific method is particularly useful here.
But totalitarian collectivism abhors critical thought, stamping it out of the brains of it’s proponents figuratively and literally if allowed to do so. . Then instead of bad ideas dying. It is people who die off in the conflict of ideas.
We call that war. This is something to reflect on it being 100 years after the first Armistice Day.
Deep under the Arctic Ocean, American submarine Captain Joe Glass (Gerard Butler, Olympus Has Fallen, 300) is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress when he discovers a secret Russian coup is in the offing, threatening to dismantle the world order. With crew and country on the line, Captain Glass must now assemble an elite group of Navy SEALs to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and sneak through enemy waters to stop WWIII.
https://www.cinemaclock.com/movies/hunter-killer-2018
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This is, I think, the best naval warfare movie since “Red October”.
Watched it last night on kodi…. very good sub story and not a bad all round flick at all. I said the identical thing to my wife..best one since Hunt for Red October.
Because all cultures are equal:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6375053/Ugandan-model-naked-selfies-leaked-online-refused-pay-blackmailers.html
It reminds me of this scene from one of the best movies ever made (and a personal favourite):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmZbCwmOC6I
First 30 veterans or serving members that go to Buckstop in Vancouver for dinner on Monday have their meals prepaid by me. Hope to see you there. Ubique.
Good and a salute for you.
I served in the PPCLI for 10 years.
This past summer, my youngest son joined the Forces as an Infantry Officer Cadet.
The fact that he will spend hours stomping on a cold, wintery Parade Square today, whilst I will observe a minute silence from the comfort of my couch (no formal services in Mexico), fills me with joy, happiness and smugness.
And son, if you’re reading this, thank you for your service. You’ll still be responsible for walking the dogs when you come home for Christmas leave.
My niece’s husband grad. RMC, served in Croatia with the PPCLI and had nightmares for quite a while after he came home. Another one of those “you don’t know who the enemy is” and you can hear the screaming at night knowing someone is being tortured and there’s nothing you can do about it.
God bless your son. I hope he never has to go into battle.
Soldiers who can’t kill the enemy and have to live in fear of being killed by the enemy quite often have problems. There is something to be said for being victorious.
Yes, ROE that remove ambiguity allowing soldiers to complete their task would, in my view, solve many cases of subsequent PTSD.
Im utterly convinced, given a different life path, in a certain situation my attitude would be (as far as fear of death = cant shoot straight) that ‘well der hb, keep yer eyes open, yer head down, and take as many of dem wit’ ya as ya possibly can.’
I would like to be remember that way given that alternate life path.
display an unholy viciousness in the face of tyranny. a defiant acceptance and ‘on with the task at hand’.
“Im doin’ it fer my buddies further back of the line ya assholes. and speaking of assholes, a bunch of ya are gonna get a spare one”
I detest violence. especially when directed at me and my loved ones. it aint just the threat posed, but the FACT some fcukface has now given me no choice but to apply that thing which I find so distasteful. so be it. all on THEM.
Break them up: https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/10/google-republican-women-enablers/
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Healing Overlords: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/patient-who-died-during-robot-13560373
My uncle died at age 15 at the Somme on Sept. 15, 1916. He’s buried in a small cemetery in the middle of a farmer’s field, off the beaten track. I’m the only member of the family to have visited his grave.
But, a very interesting story came to light when an English group who make regular visits to the battlefields and cemeteries found the story and photos of a 16-yr old (actually 15) while searching for information on him on the Canadian Virtual War Memorial website. They found the names of the co-authors of the book Gananoque Remembers and managed to contact us Their interest began this way:
When she was 17 years old, a Welsh student while on a school trip visited this out-of-the-way cemetery. When she saw my uncle’s marker, she was struck both by his age – 16 and his mother’s simple inscription: “Mother’s Darling”. She describes her feeling “I was wandering around the cemetery looking for someone else’s relative at the time. It was a beautiful warm September day, so typical of Somme weather, and as I stood looking at Will’s headstone and read that inscription it forged a link that has never dissipated across the intervening years. It was a moment of complete poignancy and comprehension of the true cost of war, the impact of which has never left me.”
Thirty years later as she’s researching to do a presentation at his grave with a group that tour regularly she wrote:
” I came across the entry of Will on the website and was astounded to suddenly find myself looking in to the face of the young man who had, for so many years, been an important component of many a battlefield pilgrimage – and may I say just what a handsome young face it was! Golly!! What a peach!! What a charmer!! And I was absolutely delighted with all the extra information, also there, to be able to have some background of substance that could ‘flesh out’ the scant information I held prior to that which would enable me to centre the focus where it should be – on the man concerned.”
She learned that William Edward Dailey was one of Canada ’s youngest war dead. When he enlisted as a bugler in August 1915, he was only age 14. On his attestation paper, he wrote that he was born 12 November 1898 rather than1900 and was accepted even though this still made him age 16 and well below the minimum enlistment age of 18.
Meanwhile his mother was trying to get him sent home, but he wrote to her: “You won’t be able to get me back because buglers are needed for gas attacks.” and wrote again in July: ” I am going to the trenches tonight. I suppose I shall see some great sights over there. I didn’t have to go unless I wanted but I volunteered as there are only the two of us left. My kit is already to move in a few minutes. Be sure to tell Leona (a pen friend in Lindsey) if I get killed. I told her you would. Good-bye. Yours lovingly, Willie.”
Besides his parents, he was leaving five younger siblings.
After arriving in France, the boys joined the 4th Infantry Bn which then moved to the front lines on 4 September. On the night of 6/7 September, he was killed while he was part of a working party which was extending trenches toward the German lines only 150 meters away.
A mother in Gan received a letter from her son which told her the sad news: ” I am sorry to say that young Dailey was killed on the 7th of September . He was killed by a sniper in no-man’s land and the men gave him a decent burial in the cemetery nearby.” He wrote again that Willie’s mother was distraught and writing them hoping to find out more information but none could add anything to what she already knew. He asked his mother to visit the grieving mother.
In August 2008, the British group made a touching presentation at Willie’s grave. A piper played a few melodies and Mary Ellen, who had first visited his grave 30 years earlier, read the story from the book Gananoque Remembers co-authored by his niece and ret’d Maj. Bill Beswetherick. Wilf Schofield who had also been in touch set up a telephone call so that I could hear it live. It’s amazing that there are these two one-time strangers, now dear friends, who are ensuring that the sacrifice of my uncle will not be forgotten in their lifetime. Hopefully that tiny cemetery won’t be missed with all the activity that will be going on during this special year of the 100th anniversary of the end of that bloody war. Rest in Peace, all you boys who never got to see Canada again and God Bless.
What a nice story. Thanks, Gellen.
Ms. Gellen,
Your uncle’s story is extremely moving. William Edward Dailey was very mature for his age and displayed a strong sense of duty and responsibility.
It probably is likely that he would’ve been very proud of you were he to have known that you would be writing about him 102 years after his death.
The latter was likely meant to be. If I recall, your birthday is in August, the same month that he enlisted, only in 1915. He also probably likely would’ve been impressed that this written memory about himself would’ve been delivered via electronic means, a new and wonderful invention since his time, and sent to the world in the month of his very own birthday, the month of November and his own 120th birthday, tomorrow.
It is very moving that you listened to a touching presentation by a British group at your uncle’s grave via telephone in 2008. Their dedication to Remembrance Day is commendable.
Thank you for his story. May the soldiers of war R.I.P.
Nancy
…”They are not dead, not even broken,
Only their dust has gone back home to the earth;
For they, the essential they, shall have rebirth
Whenever a word of them is spoken.”
Mary Gilmore
Thank you.
GReat Story..thank you for sharing that..!!
An addition proves how amazingly strong we, the human race, are. My grfa died two yrs later which left my grmo with a small govt pension since Willie was her eldest son and thus considered her support. She then lost her 2nd-youngest son to leukemia when he was 7 yrs old. She never showed the strain of earning money by doing laundry for the islanders but kept a straight back, head held high, and bid her youngest son a cheery adieu as he headed off for his trip overseas in 1942 (and returned, thank God).
When we think of people like the Trudeaus, we must remember that they are the effete of the nation. They are a small group and we have to quit electing them.
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/613628
Every Remembrance Day I reflect about my late parents and what they went through during WW II. My mother (born in Spain) had to act as a servant to a Vichy French officer in Algiers, Algeria, during her late teens. My father was a Morse code operator, in an artillery battalion half-track, in Patton’s army. After visiting an extermination camp at the close of the war, he suffered a nervous breakdown and spent two months in a mental hospital. He was never fully well during the rest of his life.
Once during my third year at U of Ottawa, I complained about the long line-ups at the bookstore. My parents replied that their war experience was all about long lines. They taught me to bring something to read while waiting in line, as they did.
Originally from Haarlem Holland, we emigrated here in 1957.
My father wouldn’t often talk about his experiences during the war…howver I do know that in 1941 he was rounded up along with all other military aged men and sent off to labour kamps in Germany. He spent 3 & 1/2 years behind the wire…working in a factory that produced instrumentation for the Bf109 and later for the FW190. His contribution to the war effort in the early part of his incarceration was to ensure a box of insturmentaion would strangely enough be dropped on the ground smashing the internals of said instruments…of course out of sight from the Germans.
His camp was situated and abutted an Airfield which on occasion came under attack by US P-38 Lightnings..he was on his bicycle as a message courier during one attack…Told me that it was the most frightening he had ever experienced…told he he figured they were diving right on him.
Many years later, in early 2003, he applied to the German Govt for reparations – having toiled for Krupp but was denied cause his “papieren” . Were not in order. Typical German BS….he was pissed and rightfully so. He ended up writing to a slave labour organization (not sure who or what), to see if they could help, alas they could not, but they published his letter in their monthly newsletter. 3 Months after it being published, he got a letter from Italy – His Bunk mate of near 60 years prior wrote to say hello….when he told me that, it was the only time I saw my Father with tears in his eyes.
He passed away this past July 13 – @ 93 yrs. His Hatred of the Nazi’s never abated, but he NEVER showed it…always laughing and clowning around. RIP Dad…we miss you and we love you..!!
The Sunday Toronto Star reminds us that Remembrance Day is all about Great Leader Justin. Large picture on the front page of feminist Trudeau walking up the steps at the Vimy Memorial. Just ignore that his father refused to fight in World War Two and liked to bike around with a German helmet on his head. According to the Star, Remembrance Day is also about gender equity. Carefully chosen letter to the editor on why a woman doesn’t wear a poppy because not enough attention is given to women who stayed at home during the wars.
This vet of THREE Afghanistan deployments is telling the Toronto Red Star -and its libtard staff – to collectively go fuck themselves.
Well said Ray.
Never forget that this POS doesn’t care about veterans or his country.
PM Dressup playacting at being a WW1 soldier…
https://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/FEB23_TRUDEAU-COSTUME_POST06-1.jpg
THAT is the most disgusting, obscene thing I have seen in a long, long time. The fact that anyone would be unashamed to be in that pretentious pose….. what a tart!!
Don’t people projectile vomit when they see that, or have we lost our collective sense of shame, or of honour for those who actually wore that uniform?
Man Dad enlisted early and he was one of the fortunate one’s. He was never shipped out of Canada and did no direct fighting. He never considered himself a vet because he had never fought, even though he was given a burial and funeral service that could be considered military by the local legion.
Toronto star and the moon calf can both go to h—-l
I totally agree.
I shudder to remember tales of his father cavorting about Canada while others his age and younger were fighting for what we have today. L
I second that motion.
A WWII veteran who belonged to our Legion branch had a story about Vimy that I thought was interesting. After D-day him and his comrades were marching through that area and even though Vimy was not directly on their route the sergeant insisted they march by the memorial for a look. What a moving experience that must have been for those fighting men in uniform.
“Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow”
Once upon a time England had no empire — and there were no world wars. After England (violently) acquired other peoples land to build an empire two world wars took place.
After the empire was over, world wars were over too.
(My job is not to connect the dots. I give you the dots, you decide whether to connect them or not.)
“After the empire was over, world wars were over too”
The millions killed in conflicts around the world since 1945 are testament to the error of your ignorant simplification.
Once upon a time Germany and France and Austria Hungary and Russia had empires and there were world wars, now they don’t, and there are still lots of wars, it’s just that we aren’t involved in them. That’s not right, we are still involved in them.
Let me try that again. Once upon a time Germany decided they needed to invade Poland, and Japan decided it needed to invade China, and this led to a word war. And before that, Germany decided to invade France, and it led to a world war.
Just some dots to consider.
And led us not forget the United Kingdom who enslaved more people than the rest put together.
You have no knowledge of history
The atomic bomb put an end to world wars. Our masters lost their taste for them once they figured out there was no way to hedge their investments against a nuclear winter.
They continue to bankroll smaller-scale wars wherever it’s potentially profitable for themselves or their Chinese or Muslim business partners.
This is just a ridiculous over-simplification. It’s not even wrong.
Go reproduce with yourself raghead.
Jizwand you need a drink of reality.
Why are you people arguing with an ungrateful immigrant whose family shits in the streets?
Says a mooselimb whose vile cult is responsible for more conquest and more death worldwide than any other ideology/entity.
P.S. Thank God civilized people conquered half the world, savages cannot be trusted with its reaches.
This past September visited the grave of my dad’s twin brother, in Normandy. Within sight of Juno Beach. He passed two days after turning 23. Every day is remembrance for I carry his name.
Have you or someone put his photo and grave marker photo on the CVWM site? I hope so. It’s a dream of mine that every man’s page will have something. My father’s cousin was flying a Spitfire on D-day and a few wks later he was shot down as he was on a reconnaissance flight near Caen. My grmo had photos in her collection and I was able to add to his page, also finding information re a forced landing he had had to make a couple of days after D-Day in his service file on Ancestry. That is, if you don’t know about CVWM and the easy accessibility of his service files. Not everyone does, but you could.
My sisters and I will go to the cemetary today to honour our mother and father. Dad served 3 years in the RCAF and was on his way to the Pacific theater when the war ended. He spent a little over a year in England servicing bombers after they returned from raids. Many on here probably realize what a grisly experience that would have been. I was surprised yesterday when my sister told me of my father telling her that he commanded a group of women who did many of these cleanups. He told her how much he respected the job they did. I had never heard of this involvement by women before and assumed it was always men.
When my Dad joined up in ’42 my mother, in essence, did the same by traveling to eastern Canada and getting work in a defense plant. Both did their duty, returned to small town BC and were married in the spring of 1946. So many did not return. I have a hard time forgiving the Euros for the terrible cost of lives that WW I & II brought to themselves but more for Canadians and Americans.
Rizwan The only dots you could provide is if you came down with the measles.All time stupidest post I have ever read.
Exactly, but what else can we expect from this 5th columnist.
Immigrant suing Federal Government for $65 million…over 2 years detention…after he was ordered to leave the country…due to his criminal record.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/man-lawsuit-immigration-detention-federal-government-1.4899770
In unrelated news David Millgard (a Canadian) was awarded $10 million for 25 years he spent behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
Steve, good supportive, bleeding-heart story from CBC News. Good to see the Ceeb, supported by our tax dollars, supporting criminal drug dealers.
exactamundo.
this story falls into the category ‘unintended fcukin consequences ya goddamn hoodlum’.
HIS criminal acts are the DIRECT path to the incarceration. in a just outcome that will cost him, oh, say $64,999.500.
leaving juuuuust enough for a plane ticket back to the shythole whence it came.
the precedent naturally is khadr’s win of the justin TURDoo lottery.
I think someone must have told him that this trick is pretty easy to pull off under Canada’s Liberal government.
There were at least one hundred land wars every year on the Indian subcontinent during the two hundred years before the British Empire took control. Hundreds of little monarchies flinging their armies at each other at the drop of a hat, local elites enjoying their plotting and intrigues, keeping the peasants busy, ensuring a surplus of young women, any totalitarian ruling class in the world would do the same if they could…
Thank you to those above who have thoughtful family history to relate. Fifty years ago I never had to go to a combat zone, nor was I asked to. More recently a, at least one member of my old regiment was killed in Afghanistan. My nephew, from another unit, did two tours in Afghanistan and was involved in combat and had friends killed. He is suffering from PTSD, but has a fantastic wife who is able to help him with this.
Now a not so great current military story. It is a little confusing as to what their offense was. Who knows what the real story is, as I no longer trust the media or the PC political hacks to tell us the truth.
“Four Canadian Forces soldiers who operated a Calgary-based online military surplus store have been suspended from the military following allegations they catered to a white supremacist clientele.”
https://calgarysun.com/news/local-news/canadian-soldiers-suspended-as-military-investigates-caglary-based-surplus-stores-alleged-white-supremacist-links/wcm/38eafc1f-ed08-48f6-8e3c-c14825deb446
If they were selling Che or Soviet paraphernalia they would no doubt be applauded.
I scratched by head on that one. Rhodesians were people too. Selling memorabilia from a 40 year defunct regime is somehow racist?? Collectors aren’t racist. I have a few Hitler stamps among thousands without his picture. I guess I’m racist too. I guess white privilege does that to you. You know, the white privilege earned by taking a dump in an outhouse in the dark at 40 below.
Interesting how the Zimbabwe regime which replaced the Rhodesian regime is equally, if not more, racist and polite company says nothing.
I will remember my 26 comrades who never returned home following our Battle Group TF-AFG deployment in 2007.
Lest We Forget.
Was just googling Ortona.
What a waste .
As the years go by I wonder if the effort was all a waste.
My father volunteered,spent Xmas 43 pinned down in the dark,talking to a freshly blinded Kiwi, thro a brick wall.
As the injured could not be evacuated.
Now we have done to ourselves,everything he said he fought to prevent.
So did we learn the lessons both wars presented us?
Or does every generation have to make the same mistakes ?
Maybe the real enemies are not without but within, the Stupid Evil Bastards,with delusions of adequacy,every society has them,we became too soft to banish them.
Hence we are now slaves to our government.
Without property or personal rights.
It crossed my mind that if Dads generation was still alive they would be hunting most of our current politicians and bureaucrats with out any mercy at all.
But we did this to ourselves.
Well said and so true. Our current government is as you say, only so slowly implemented most people do not realize it.
We did it to ourselves…so much for democracy. IMO the worst evil today is a media intent on inserting itself into the politics of the country as opposed to reporting the facts and allowing people to decide for themselves.
One man calling them what they are is US President Donald Trump, he made it in spite of them. This needs to be done here as well.
Our governments were far more obnoxious and evil in the 1940s than they are today. In the ’40s there existed the draft ie slavery, internment camps, price and wage controls and the rest of the as yet untruncated New Deal, Jim Crow, etc.
On the positive side they did a much better job at keeping turd worlders where they belong.
The obnoxious ones have just gone underground. They’ll be back.
JR, are you referring to the Cdn Vichy Party aka LIEberals?
No, all of them are guilty.
We have allowed generational theft in the form of the debt.
We have lived large on the investments of our forefathers while “investing” in welfare.
We have allowed theft by government to rise so high that couples are financially punished for having children.
And we have allowed bureaucratic intrusion to become so normal that even the planned theft of banking information does not seem to bother Canadians.
We work to the benefit of the state longer than we work to benefit ourselves.
We accept blatant lying about these costs as normal.Has any accountant bothered to point out that 2/3 of the cost of housing and feeding ourselves is the cost of government imposed on the businesses?
50% is the income tax,no one in any Canadian political party dares calculate the actual indirect theft,hidden in material costs,transport and regulations..
Of course most could not if they tried,being numerically illiterate products of our public education system.
Never forget modern Canada’s tradition ;”Go along to get along”.
Dismantling our kleptocracy is just too radical.
Western men are re-discovering the manly virtues of Greece and Rome that sustained them on battlefield from Troy to Ypres.
Mark Zuckerberg’s sister has a problem with this.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/11/donna-zuckerberg-social-media-misoyny-violence-classical-antiquity-not-all-dead-white-men
Saw a pic of bongo sitting beside Bibi. Is it me but doesn’t bongo always look very uncomfortable in the presence of unassailable masculine authority? He knows he doesn’t measure up.
We should have Vice-Admiral Mark Norman representing Canada there.
Bibi is increasingly assailed by anti-corruption investigations.
He is increasingly assailed by witchhunters, generously bankrolled by diaspora apostates, who want him removed from office amd replaced with someone more willing to sell the Land of Israel to Amalek.
Cool story bro.
Bibi is assaulted just like Trump is assaulted, just like Judge Kavanaugh is assaulted, just like Tucker Carlson is assaulted … by leftists bent on silencing and destroying the opposition. According to their credo … “by any means necessary”. Slowly, all the rational people of Western Nation’s see through the ruse. The left are sick, sick, puppies.
“We should have Vice-Admiral Mark Norman representing Canada there.”
If the Conservatives are elected he should be appointed Chief of Defense Staff. The Liberals are trying him for releasing secrets that weren’t secret. Norman was acting to support government policy. His only crime was not supporting Justin’s efforts to double the price of a supply ship contract and give it to friends of the Liberal Party.
Neither Canada nor America should ever have been involved in this most colossally stupid and pointless of wars.
And the Kaiser should never have tried to conquer France and Russia with the help of his Muslim friends, yet here we are.
And the Germans learned nothing from the experience, and have never paid in any meaningful way for their crimes. Today, in 2018, the border of the Russian Federation should be the Rhine.
I agree our boys died in vain. The bigshots saw to that.
Sure shove all Eastern Europe under the boot of the subhuman Siberian Mongols, that will show Ze Germans. Cretin. Siberian Mongols should have been wiped with nukes in 1945, one shithole city after another, starting with the most populous ones.
I agree.
Collosally stupid, collosally pointless.
Look at our totalitarian world.
Look at the EU dubbed by some as the EUSSR.
I mean no disrespect for the fallen who, if they could, would agree while rubbing their eyes in disbelief.
Paleocon Pat Buchanan agrees too.
The hard core libertarian — anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard — thought we should only fight when WE are invaded and not with massed armies but via guerilla action.
The American founding fathers did not want standing armies.
You agree? Then you’re an idiot like the other two. The problem was not with frighting the war. The problem was not wiping out the commies afterwards. The civilized world had no moral right to loosen its grip on the planet after such sacrifices. If Siberian Mongols have been vaporized we would not have to worry about Chicoms or mooselimbs today. Isolationism is a religion of slow surrender, that is why UnMes who hate the civilization support it.
To the tune of Vivaldi’s rain, also known as the largo from winter in The Four Seasons.
Requiem for the fallen
The horns and the pipes are calling
In Trenches, muddy,
On the ships, out at sea
The airmen on the breeze
‘Ere by guns or disease
Many fell.
Beloved Sons
And fathers… gone
Most every one
Is sorely miss-ed
God keep you until we meeeeeet again.
Requiem for the fallen
You’re gone but not forgotten
We gather in the winds of autumn
We’ll walk well-worn paths
to the old cenotaphs
Where your brothers come back
To salute…
As the poppies on our hearts say, we remember,
So we gather at these places each November
In peace, rest, remembered ones
Since meetings make themselves on time, close enough for PM Trudeau for the 100th anniversary of the 11th hour Armistice.
“Arriving a few minutes late, they (Trudeau, Mercel and UN Secretary) missed the exact moment to commemorate the armistice that ended World War I. Fighter jets passed overhead as the leaders walked to the Arc de Triomphe.”
That triumvirate says it all imho. Such disrespectful idiots.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/11/world-leaders-miss-exact-armistice-day/1966857002/
Trump didn’t even show because rain.
It would be fine if they all just stayed home. This yearly ritual achieves nothing.
You’re an idiot without respect. You should stay home.
“Trump didn’t even show because rain.” That was just the excuse. In fact, there may have been a security issue. Seems to be being kept under wraps. Looks like the globalists are getting desperate.
No one was unaffected. My father was born in 1903 so he missed the First War because he was too young. Being 36 in 1939, although attempting to enlist many times, he was considered too old for the infantry. I believe he was always slightly embarrassed that so many went and he could not. He spent WWII making Hurricanes, however. God bless them all.
My grfa, born in Eng. in 1871, enlisted in Jan. 1917, and served behind the front lines but close enough to get shell shock from lack of sleep. On his attestation form he lied about his date of birth making himself age 42 to sneak in just under the cut-off age. He lost the eyesight in one eye when dodging a shell and striking a post. A local man enlisted in the same month giving his birthdate as 1867 and was sent to serve for a while just behind the front also. He actually was born in 1847 and had fought in the Civil War. After 8 months working with the railway troops, his age was discovered. When King George V learned of this story, he asked to meet the “oldest man in khaki” and invited him to a special audience at Buckingham Palace where he praised Boucher for his courage and determination.
Your father was lucky, very lucky, and building Hurricanes was an honourable contribution to the war, I’d say. My husband enlisted in the RCAF and was made a clerk, something that he never got over.
Bongo missed the celebration he went to Europe to attend……his old man missed WW11.
@gellen. Your recall and eloquence leaves me stunned. Thank you for your perspectives on this day.
Appreciate it very much!
GEC
I agree. She is a great asset to this blog.
Yes, I agree also.
hb @ 700 pm shows a link…and a photo of Ms Gellen’s uncle. Indeed, he was a very handsome fellow, like the researcher said, a “peach.” TQ hb.
I’m glad I returned to this thread this evening.
The Altering of the Deal
Two wings of the same bird…
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/7/donald-trump-endorses-nancy-pelosi-for-speaker-of-/?fbclid=IwAR2lkth8G1Rm83MokD-ELFYqTJb0AlqqnKzKwUt5ac0VhboUARefHb4ia0U
Trump endorses Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House
“In all fairness, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be chosen Speaker of the House by the Democrats,” the president tweeted. “If they give her a hard time, perhaps we will add some Republican votes. She has earned this great honor!”
“I think I would be able to very easily supply her the votes,” Mr. Trump said, strengthening his offer to rally Republican support to her bid for speakership.
If San Fran Nan is sitting in the Speaker’s chair, does that not mean that the ONLY vote she gets is the “casting / deciding vote” in the unlikely event of a 50-50 vote split?
Thus, all she can do is; either the appointed job or, more likely, openly display her multitude of already widely known “failings”.
Don’t give a fork where son of Pierre spent this day, thankfully we didn’t have to look at him.
(pssst, yo, doan say nuthin, but, regarding pee air TURDoo’s ‘role’ during the 39-45 conflict . . . . ummmm . . . . .
me bucket list includes a wee errand involving the TURD’s burial site
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12792/pierre-elliott-trudeau
aaaaand a load of equine byproduct, aka ‘horseshyt aka horse TURDs)
jest puttin the 2 togedder fer posterity. or is that posteriority?
gawd help me I hate that goddamn closet communist.
Not exactly a fan of Lil Tater Head but I’ll give him this for his appearance today, he was able to pull a modernized version of the Nehru jacket out of his “Tickle Trunk”. It must have gone unused during his India sojourn.