I shouldn’t blame it all on Layton’s you’ve got to be kidding party—it’s nearly all liberals and their media, really, as well as the liberal-leftist academia in Canada, who collectively share the blame for successfully fulfilling their ignoble agenda to dupe Canadians into believing that Canada is strictly “a nation of peacekeepers” and that we don’t historically fight fierce battles in order to gain freedom and democracy and to end tyranny the world over. They (liberals) have done that because they don’t want us to fight for those things.
Thanks to them, Canadians in shocking numbers don’t fully support fighting for freedom and democracy —nor even against terrorism and more frighteningly, don’t even believe Canada and America and our way of life is worth fighting for. And a shocking number of Canadians would sooner turn their back on our proud military history and those who fought for our freedom, than to recognize them as the heroes—past and present, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere—that they are.
Cdns. losing knowledge of military history: study
Just one day before Canadians pause to remember those who fought for freedom, a new survey suggests our collective knowledge of Canadian military history is eroding.
The survey by the Dominion Institute found that only 42 per cent of Canadians received a passing grade on a simple test of First World War knowledge.
In a multiple choice quiz, only 33 per cent of those quizzed identified First World War commander Sir Arthur Currie and legendary flying ace Billy Bishop as Canadian military heroes from a list of only four. The other two names on the list belonged to U.S. Civil War leader Ulysses S. Grant and American Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
And one quarter of those surveyed picked MacArthur as a Canadian war hero.
Among young Canadians, the grades were even worse, with only three out of every 10 young Canadians passing a four-question quiz. The lowest grades came from Quebec’s young people.
Along with those dismal results, the survey, which was conducted during the last week of October, revealed that Canadians are having a harder and harder time remembering the names of Canadian war heroes.
Rudyard Griffiths, executive director of the Dominion Institute said the results were upsetting.
“If you compare them with similar polls in the past, there is a decline in knowledge and a decline in Remembrance Day commitment,” Griffiths told The Globe and Mail.
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I’ll take this opportunity to once again present this video flick that I posted this week on Monday. Read the blog entry here.
Click the picture to play video – 6 minutes – Windows Media
As I said in Monday’s blog entry (borrowing from words in the song), look at the picture of the little girl. There’s no fear in her eyes! Try to understand the significance of that, liberals.
(Thanks again Mister Kim!)
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