Canadian soldiers in the Middle East. Definitely out of their natural habitat. They should be fixin’ up the home, watching hockey and enjoying coffee and donuts….
Read More:http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2010/12/transparent-military.html
…Novelist Don Delillo has a character say, “Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between the present and the past . . . War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”…
Consider In Flanders Fields, which actually gives a voice to the fallen: “We are the Dead.” It’s always read (or sung) on Remembrance Day. But the third verse is a virtual call to continue the carnage: “Take up the quarrel with the foe . . . To you from failing hands we throw the torch . . .” That last line appears on the wall of the Montreal Canadiens’ dressing room, where it does no harm and possibly some good. But even Col. John McRae, the physician who wrote it, might have had second thoughts about that verse, had he survived the war.Read More:http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1084998–salutin-at-the-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier
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