Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?

As it is rememberance day soon I would like to pay tribute to those who throughout the years have given life and limb for Canada. I would like to remember every single regiment and division in the Army, Navy, Airforce and all other branches that I haven't mentioned. The question> where have all the soldiers gone is a legitimate one. The question about the actual wars and the reason must at least for remeberance day in my point of view be put aside and forgotten. I will never on the other hand forget the sacrifice and commitment our brave men and women have shown throughout our great history.

In the beginning even though we weren't a country Canadians and new Canadians were dying for this country because they knew how great it could be. The British army, the Quebec Voltaguers and the United Native Nations helped to defeat the United States and kepy Canada free from an expantionist American Government that was out to colonize the whole American penninsula. When we became a nation the Boer war ripped this country apart internally but our men went to war not asking the reason why and died. This is why I take one day out of the year to not question the reason for war because our brave men and woman don't all year round, as a respect to them I in turn respect their commitment. This has continued to this day, and as a small token to their commitment to the nation I must do the same at least for one day.

The First World War was not a great war it was a war in which the masses found out that war was not the great glorious institution it was made out to be, yet they still enlisted on mass when Canada entered WW2. The reasons not to enlist were given by all those experienced the torture of the trenches of Western Europe, and yet those who are rightly called the greatest generation had the guts and the heart to go overseas thousands of miles from home to help keep Europe and the World from falling into the hands of monsters.

The recent years have had peacekeeping missions in Cyprus, Lebanon and more recently in Rwanda and Bosnia who have seen the worst and have come out no better yet have earned the respect and have earned their honour. The war in Afganistan and all the other wars in my point of view are not and will never be the soldiers fault, but they show duty and and great service to their nation by taking the responsibility for the result whether they agree with the war or not. They serve with honour so let us serve them as civilians by not sending them into harms way unless absolutly neccessary. Thank you for reading and please remember our brave men and woman on November Eleventh. Wear a poppy whether you agree with wars or not, it's just the right thing to do.

Lest we forget. RIP to those who haven't lived to see this day AMEN.