On this day, let us remember the 20,000,000 fallen and those who suffered for the rest of their lives. Looking back through the lens of history Canadians rose to fight, still in a colonial mindset, spent blood and treasure on this European debacle of death and destruction. Looking at Europe today and the lack of will of Europeans to fight for the culture and faith, it was all in vain. Those at the time, of course, did not see it this way. It was for King and Country and it was necessary for the preservation of Europe from a united Germany's onslaught.
The fools of France and England punished Germany so badly that another and worse war, and ironically, a just war on the part of the Allies, would be fought only two decades later. The bloodshed we see in the Middle East today is a result of the dreadful Sykes-Picot which carved up the wretched Ottoman Turkish empire and imposed artificial borders and puppet monarchs on the ancient peoples.
Looking at Europe now, the Europeans did not deserve the deaths of tens of thousands of Canadians and Americans who died in trenches of war and disease only to now behold a Europe no longer able to find the will to survive.
The fools of France and England punished Germany so badly that another and worse war, and ironically, a just war on the part of the Allies, would be fought only two decades later. The bloodshed we see in the Middle East today is a result of the dreadful Sykes-Picot which carved up the wretched Ottoman Turkish empire and imposed artificial borders and puppet monarchs on the ancient peoples.
Looking at Europe now, the Europeans did not deserve the deaths of tens of thousands of Canadians and Americans who died in trenches of war and disease only to now behold a Europe no longer able to find the will to survive.
God have mercy on those who died.
May His justice be served on those who caused it.