#413
I'm happy to announce that this is post No. 413. I'm sure you're all rejoicing at that news.
There isn't a lot that's blog-worthy at the moment, hence my silence. I was, however, pleased to note the successful removal of one high-ranking terrorist/insurgent vermin the other day. Sadly, where one goes away, yet another will rise to fill his place. I won't get all polyanna and wish for peace, flowers and happiness, but there really are some twisted and misguided souls out there.
A big thumbs-down to all the idiots more concerned with the fact that it was 6.6.06, than the fact that it was 62 years since the Normandy Landing that same day.
Why are people so stupid? Penny? Kal? Cricket? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
6 comments:
I don't know how it is north of the border, but most everyone in America has received such a piss-poor education in history that I would wager that most people under 20 couldn't tell you why June 6th was significant.
Millions of people gave their lives in WWII, and all kids learn these days is that terrorists are insurgents, just like our founding fathers were insurgents against Britain.
It makes my blood boil.
Well, many of us weren't even around 62 years ago but I seew what you're saying.
Jolie and Hilton probably made more headlines that day than Normandy.
Priorities, right?
And especially for Canadians, who as the small fry, have so few triumphs to trumpet as it is.
So few triumphs? Is outburst kidding? Even I, not a student of history, know that Canadians made very significant, and plenty, contributions throughout the world. I will remind my probably American friend Outburst that back in the day, when we were fighting between us, we successfully burned a certain significant building down.
The real point is that we should never forget what was sarcificed to get us to the freedom of today to be able to trash talk each other online in freedom like this. The reality is that a lot of people, myself included, would rather think about anything else. Not because we don't want to remember those who died but because we don't want to remember why they died, how they died, where they died, how young they died, who they killed, and all the negative, ugly parts of a war that must happen before the conflict is over and someone is declared a so-called winner.
I understand that wars will happen, it is an immense escalation of a little fight that sucks in everyone around the flashpoint, but it does not mean I want to celebrate it happening, or that I want to revisit what it took to end it. It is a hard line to walk and I am still crawling along.
Frank: Amen, brother
Outburst: People of the day were equally besotted with celebrity, but we just get it from more media forms than they do.
Dtrini: Dude...dial the boil down just a bit. ;-) OB's point is made from the comparative standpoint. Yes, we've made all sorts of contributions. We're just secure enough in ourselves that we don't need to trumpet them ad nauseum. I also point out that OB is a fellow Canuck (and even if he isn't he at least behaves like one.) :)
MD: As I recall, it was a mix of British and Colonial Canadian troops who torched the old mansion during the War of 1812. Historical lore from my old Regiment's history says that one of the ancestor units was an active participant.
(yeah, and when we attacked Montreal we ddin't burn it down. Guess who has the better manners...)
Uh oh... I think he means me (I did a 6-6-6 post and didn't even remember about D-Day until I saw Mossy's post)...
sorry...
(and what's worse, I at first thought Mossy had screwed up because everybody knows D-Day is December 6th....
err... oops.
Kal: there was a whole tit-for-tat with burnings, because the American forces set a few things alight in "Muddy York" during that little fracas in 1812-1814.
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