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Thread #124990   Message #2764307
Posted By: Little Hawk
11-Nov-09 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Canuck Gov. Gen. Nov 11. In uniform ???
Subject: RE: BS: Canuck Gov. Gen. Nov 11. In uniform ???
I do. ;-)

I'm a bit of a cynic about these Remembrance Day ceremonies, and here's why.   While I understand that there is good reason to honor those who have served and those who have fallen in past wars, I think that the real underlying and primary reason governments do such ceremonials is to get people used to the idea that war is "honorable", to glorify the military, and to stir up patriotic fervor in the subconscious that can be used to convince yet another generation of young people to go forth willingly to some other foreign land, kill, and be killed...usually in some fiasco that is absolutely NOT in their own real interests.

Like Afghanistan, for example.

I think it's as much a propaganda exercise as it is a memorial.