It was a blessing, I woke up to a song on the radio just before 11 a.m. (the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month--the time when the guns fell silent to end "The War to End All Wars" how I pray they were right).
It had a unique refrain:
Have you forgotten or just don't give a damn
lost in your freedom
of those who fell for the Red and White.
It is true, we stand and shout for all these rights, but look how we treat our seniors, our soldiers, the brave men and women that have been fighting evil for the Maple Leaf for centuries, we have finally honoured our Native Veterans who had to literally give all to serve their nation, and a few years ago we honoured Korea...what about others?
What about the general who stood against the world in Rwanda?
Or the brave men and women lost in the horrors of Bosnia?
What of the soldiers in the natural disaster areas?
Or those who serve and have died in Afghanistan to bring peace and freedom?
This list could go on and on for the centuries we have been a nation, and before that British North America.
Canada has a rich history...Normandy and Vimy to name a few, but how many of us truly know the history? How many of us would step up if called?
Is it that we have forgotten or that we no longer give a damn for those who bring us our freedom?
It had a unique refrain:
Have you forgotten or just don't give a damn
lost in your freedom
of those who fell for the Red and White.
It is true, we stand and shout for all these rights, but look how we treat our seniors, our soldiers, the brave men and women that have been fighting evil for the Maple Leaf for centuries, we have finally honoured our Native Veterans who had to literally give all to serve their nation, and a few years ago we honoured Korea...what about others?
What about the general who stood against the world in Rwanda?
Or the brave men and women lost in the horrors of Bosnia?
What of the soldiers in the natural disaster areas?
Or those who serve and have died in Afghanistan to bring peace and freedom?
This list could go on and on for the centuries we have been a nation, and before that British North America.
Canada has a rich history...Normandy and Vimy to name a few, but how many of us truly know the history? How many of us would step up if called?
Is it that we have forgotten or that we no longer give a damn for those who bring us our freedom?
posted by T @ 12:26 PM
1 Comments:
The Bible says to consider the needs of others before our own. When we demand rights are we doing it because we feel we deserve them or because others do? What are our motives, to benifit us or make this world a better place, love or selfishness. The "Me" mentality is catching up with us and showing us why the Bible says to think of others first.
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