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im not asking you to "cry me a river". No one is questioning American soldiers and their sacrifice but you came on this thread and insulted Canada and then insulted all your allies who have died fighting alongside America.
You've disrected ours. So, tough...
In America, it's known as Veterans Day, in France Armistice day, in Britain and Canada Remembrance Day, but whatever you call it, it is a day for us to pause and reflect on the conflicts that have passed, and the lives that have been lost, that have so violently shaped our nations for a century.
It can be easy to take for granted the freedom and relative peace that we experience each day in our respective nations and what it took to get to this place. We like to think we live in troubled times, but taking a moment to reflect I can scarcely imagine what my great grandparents must have thought about their time. Hitler was on the doorstep of Britain, beckoning to invade, Europe completely overun. How did he feel as he flew his glider on D-Day 1944 to land at Pegasus Bridge. What stories might I have heard, what lessons might I have learned had he not died very shortly after my birth. A picture of him and his uniform adorns the Pegasus Bridge Memorial in Normandy.
Many people have stories like these, World War One and Two especially enrolled entire Generations in war, whether it was at home or abroad it left no one untouched, it left so many families without sons, brothers, fathers and husbands. It brought us face to face with the most gruesome and bloody episodes of human nature, not only on the battlefield, but as Russian and Allied armies discovered Concentration camps where human beings were eliminated in a cold and industrial fashion that shook the very core of our humanity, and brought forth with it a trial for it's perpetrators that was to be the first of it's kind, and ushered in a new era in International Law.
The soldiers that served day after day in muddy trenches, that stormed the beaches of Normandy, that braved island after island of the Pacific Ocean, that pushed through the hills of Korea, that on this day fight together in the Mountains and valleys of Afghanistan, whatever ones feelings are on the conflicts, our service men and women deserve our respect and our gratitude for doing a job most of us simply could not do. They are our shield, our core, that defend our nation, our people and most importantly our democracy.
To all those who died, we remember you and we will never forget you.
To all our allied service men and women, wherever they may be throughout the globe, know that we are thinking of you and we are grateful for what you do everyday.
Lest we forget
That's the word, I stick to it.
Jetboogieman
im not asking you to "cry me a river". No one is questioning American soldiers and their sacrifice but you came on this thread and insulted Canada and then insulted all your allies who have died fighting alongside America.
apdst, your posts in this thread are an embarrassment to all the brave men and women who have fought and died in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past decade. I'm ashamed to see that kind of callous cruelty displayed by an American.
People insult America all the time, but you never say anything about that.
If you don't want me saying things you don't like about foreign soldiers, don't throw their corpses in my face in an attempt to shut me down. Should have just left them out of the conversation.
Oh get over it you baby. He was giving you a good ribbing, which is nothing new between Americans and Canadians.
You got your panties twisted over it and tried throwing numbers at him. So he owned you with numbers back. Now you want to act all indignant.
no he insulted Canada by accusing them of beign cowards, I informed him of the number of dead Canadians in Afghan and he responded by brushing if off as nothing...read the thread buddy and im sure most people would agree I wasnt "throwing corpses at him"
You just rephrased what I said.
well no I didnt. I wasnt throwing corpses at anyone I was letting apst know about the sacrifices Canada and many other allies have endured over the last 10 years because he was ignoring them. Huge difference
The fact is, your being offended by a good ribbing is what makes it throwing corpses.
lol have you even read his responses to Jetboogieman's videos of Canadian troops fighting or the list of their dead?
You mean all the stuff that followed you throwing corpses at him?
I don't expect people to reply rationally when corpses are thrown in their face.
there were no corpses thrown in anyone face and im sure most people on here would vouch for me on that. He insulted Canada and called them cowards, I informed him that Canada had lost men in Afghan supporting America, he brushed that off and mocked their sacrifice. If you are unable to see that then I guess Apdst has another bunkmate in the looney bin!
Just because you keep repeating the same thing is not going to change how I perceive your reply. Fact is 158 corpses were thrown in his face. I never said he didn't brush it off or mock them. I specifically said, in the reply you just quoted, that I do not expect him to reply rationally after having 158 corpses thrown in his face.
If you wanted him to respect your dead, you shouldn't have thrown them in his face.
Its attitudes like this that keeps us from letting you become a State.
Iran says may retaliate for Canada's "hostile" cut in ties - Yahoo! News
YOU ARE NOT HURTING OUR HAT >:O
Thoughts?
its all just hot air....
yep, you know way canada is never attacked because in reality its no different than attacking us
sorry what? I informed you of the sacrifices of Canada (after you insulted them and accused them of being cowards) and you deceided to question how many actually died in action. Know one threw corpses in your face you just embarrased youself. Ironic though that I often see you defending Isreal to the death on this site but I ask you how many soldiers did they offer after 9/11?
Neither are our's. I know that, because we lost way more troops, because our men took the fight to the enemy, rather than sit on the side lines holding the flanks.
In all seriousness though they can have Toronto if they want.
But they better keep their hands off the rest of the country :lol:
In Operation Zahar the Canadians were Ambushed by the Taliban.
The Canadians had the longest Sniper kill in Afghanistan untel recently which was taken by the Brits.
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