PTBC reader Mister Kim sent me this video flick last year from singer-songwriter (and more) Terry Kelly. I posted it last year and people loved it, so I’ll mostly repeat my post from last year. It (the music video) is still about the best tribute to Remembrance Day and our heroic soldiers that I can find for web site-posting purposes. See if it doesn’t make you shed a tear or two as it did me. Then think about why it did.
Terry Kelly is a Canadian with a real sense of purpose. He has visited our troops in Afghanistan and met with them and General Hillier and performed for them. You can read about it here at his site. But this video—the song and the images—stick with me.
Visit terry Kelly’s web site for a full explanation of this song and video.
Terry Kelly – “A Pittance of Time”
Look at the little girl in his video.
“There’s no fear in her eyes!”
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Some political comments since this is a political web site:
For all I know Terry Kelly doesn’t give a hoot about politics, and I am not trying to interpret what he’s saying here at all. But what I was feeling as I watched this video was about some of those liberals—Liberal Party supporters, NDP supporters, and some of their brethren in the liberal media and academia (and so on). I mean the ones who refuse to acknowledge that there is a cost to their freedom. The ones who constantly question our global commitment to fighting battles for peace and freedom and democracy and against Islamofascist terrorism. The ones who constantly undermine our nation’s resolve—for little more than cheap political and what I would consider to be anti-Canadian purposes. The ones who have such a cavalier ambiguity or outright resentment toward our nation committing—and our countrymen volunteering—to fighting as fiercely as required no matter what, and for no matter how long it takes—for peace and freedom and democracy.
Will they be feeling reverence and respect and fondness and a deep abiding thanks to our veterans this Remembrance Day, or in fact feeling resentment toward them, and our nation, and our nation’ s noble history and tradition of fighting as fiercely as required in battles seemingly delivered straight from Hell, for our peace, our freedom, and our democracy—and theirs?
I suppose one small tear I shed is for the fact that I find myself having to commit incalculable amounts of time trying to convince Canadians that we need to get behind our troops and their mission, because it’s really about getting behind Canada—and all the things we stand “on guard” for.
Some almost seem to stand for something else.
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