Next Remembrance Day, let’s commit to peace Re: “So many stories, so few Second World War vets left to tell them,” Nov. 11.
With a headline like that, you’d think war was this thing our grandparents did, thankfully receding into the rear-view. Certainly that’s how I imagined it as a nine-year-old boy scout at the cenotaph in years past.
And I am sure that for them, just like Earl Clark, “every once in a while you wake up in the middle of the night and, boom, you’re right there.” And yet, it is a curious date. Nov. 11 has absolutely nothing to do with the Second World War, but is a famous vestige from the First World War, when the guns fell silent, poetically on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Using this remarkable moment in time as a metaphor for all wartime suffering certainly conveys a message.
What purpose other than to remind us that “war” has these horrific components, with deaths as a result?They had their faults, but they are still heroes I read with interest the pages recognizing the sacrifices veterans have made. These men fought and died so that we could live in relative freedom. They are dead and they are heroes.Beware of the zealots who would sanitize our history and chisel off the heroes’ names because they once worked at a residential school or uttered a racist statement.
It was taken down, and now how will our children know who it was that helped a movement that turned out to be so very wrong?Don BoultHonouring the monarch still makes sense Pleased to see the Remembrance ceremonies in Ottawa included laying a wreath in memory of Queen Elizabeth. During the Second World War, she donned a uniform and drove trucks in support of the war effort.
How did this ship make it past the sea trials when it arrived in Victoria? Applying to Lloyds Registry to allow the ship to carry more weight in sheltered waters is a Band-Aid waiting to fall off once the storm season arrives.Current measures do not work, try something else “And we will build housing, we will build housing, we will build housing,” said Victoria Mayor Marianne Alto.
Lobby provincial and federal government to establish accessible person-centred long-term treatment facilities for mental health and addiction. But I nevertheless think monarchy is a better system of government than a presidential system like that in the U.S., where the politician who is head of government is invested with the aura of a head of state. It is much better to keep those two roles separate.
I felt his tribulations, as he was sent to schools that did not suit him, and was forced into a marriage without love. And he is the one member of the family who has interesting ideas: about preserving tradition in architecture and about organic farming, for example.Sooke It’s actually a tough life for deer in a city. They’re forced to compete with each other for plants that don’t normally form part of their diet; they risk being killed or injured by cars; and as their numbers increase they become vulnerable to malnutrition and disease.
Why? It seems more money can be made quickly by selling these logs to the U.S. and/or foreign markets .
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