2006-11-02

Forgetting to Remember

We're a history deprived and deficient society. No doubt about it. Even when we do dip in the logs of history it's in a selective manner. People from France to Holland honour our fallen soldiers. In Canada, we choose to ignore. To forget. How regrettable!

The days leading up to Remembrance Day is a solemn one to those who care abut such things. The great men and women who served in the Great Wars are slowly dying off and we could not care less. There they stand - as the furious pace of people going nowhere swirl past them - with the medals proudly displayed. The medals themselves mean little. It's what these gems stand for that has great meaning. They served us - indeed Western Civilization- during a time of evil and madness. We can't even spare a moment. A dollar.

It's a sad commentary of where we sit listlessly as a community of soulless people who take everything for granted. Yes, Canadians are apparently so advanced. I know. To me, we have no clue about anything anymore. We argue over the silliest and pointless of things. Lost zombies we are. Some are just to busy to care. Others have decided to justify their ignorance for political reasons. Many simply are not aware. Oxford defines 'aware' as having knowledge or realization. This does not apply to some Canadians. It just doesn't. It should not be tolerated.

It stuns me to the point of anger every year. In the last few years our Veterans have been kicked out of the CIBC Bank, turned down by IKEA and other corporations. The list has grown disturbingly long. This year is no exception. It seems no one is paying attention. Provigo Grocers - though they moved to rectify the situation - was the latest culprit to deny Veterans the honor of selling their Poppies.

It just should not happen. How unenlightened and ungrateful are we? How desensitized are now to allow ourselves to treat soldiers with disdain? In a sense, we are demoralized and we don't see it.

These people are not in it for the money. They have too much honour and integrity to hold any greed for overvalued paper. They stared straight into the eyes of the Devil and his palace of hell. Just WHO are these jackasses who treat our Veterans in such a manner?

It really does point to the apathetic malaise to which we live in. Too many unqualified people are in positions of importance. Too many people are in places of power merely because they know how to take orders and fill in the blanks. They have no sense of history; of themselves.

It's not hard todespise people with no sense of curiosity; of respect. That do not look beyond their finger tips. Who interpret rules and regulations to their literal end. Who show no creative ability to adjust to the unpredictable nature of humanity. Yet, there they are - managing other people. Earning high incomes to turn away relics of a lost time that should never, ever be forgotten. What careers they hold!

Forget we do. Frivolous we are. Ferocious in our ignorance we roar. Flawed and failing in our spirit as a nation we lie.

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