Rememberance Day
Remember the 4 Canadians who died in the Afghanistan War - lets hope they're the last.
If these statistics are correct (and I believe them to be as I got them off Government websites) then Canada has lost about 112,500 men and women in acts of War in about 100 years. That's more than 1,000 Canadians per year. Canada was a relatively lucky country in terms of casualties.
To follow the Dalton Trumbo train of though in the Introduction of "Johnny Got His Gun" (and keeping his proportions): 112,500 dead is equal to 8,500 tons of flesh and bones; 349,000 lbs of brain matter; 141,000 gallons of blood; 5,175,000 years of life that will never be lived and 281,000 children who will never be born. I hope the mathematics of war will sicken you. That's what they're meant to do.
And that's just for Canada, a country that has lost very little in that 100 years compared to say France, Russia, Germany or Japan.
Another war may start within a year. If George Bush is ready to add to the hundreds of millions who died all over the world: From Dresden to Hiroshima to Somalia to Hong Kong to Paris to Guernica to Vimy to Berlin to Stalingrad to...
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