Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day: I put my hand up. War is terrible, I said, trying to balance the argument I was about to make. But Remembrance Day isnt about glorifying war. Remembrance Day is about remembering those who signed up, suited up and shipped out even though all rational thought says you shouldnt. I remember my words exactly. I was proud. I also remember somebody behind me making a crack about writing Hallmark cards. It was a bit affected, I ll admit, but I believed every word, according to The Star. The circumstances that enveloped our fallen do matter and they merit examination and debate on any number of days open for such discussion. On Nov. 11, on behalf of the very real people who died very horrific deaths: pausing to remember their individual loss of life is the very least we can do and When I was a university student in 2002, a professor admonished me and a few of my classmates for missing his previous lecture so that we could attend the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Confederation Square. War, he said, was a manifestation of greedy corporations and ambitious politicians. Why would anyone glorify such a tragic waste of human life? Remembrance Day, as the name suggests, is not about the prime ministers, propagandists or profiteers who so often fill our history books. Remembrance Day, rather than glorifying war and its often-muddied roots, recognises the very regular people who offered to die for Canada and so very often did. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.