Subj : Re: Canada FTW!!!
To   : Shaun Buzza
From : George Pope
Date : Wed Jan 12 2022 18:12:34

>> Pretty much singlehandedly won WW1 (Vimy Ridge, anyone?)
>> 
> Calm down, man! I agree, we had a big role in BOTH world wars. But to say
>that WE single-handedly won either of them suggests that the rest of the world
> wasn't involved. Don't do that.

I did say "pretty much" as a qualifier on purpose.

>> On 7-December-1941, ehjern tyhe Japanese bombed our ally's Pacific base,
>> we declared war in response, to Japan faster than they even did!  You
>> don't mess with our friends! PERIOD.
> Well, that's true enough, by about three hours. The exact difference between
> our different time zones...weird...

Umm, Ottawa & DC are in the same timezone.

>> We were part of the coalition that hit the beaches on D-Day.
> A part. Don't forget the contributions of the Brits and the Americans. Far
> more of their lives were lost than the number of Canucks who went there.

A part is exactly what I said. I'm proud of our military, that even though we  were far fewer in numbers, we leapt forward to do what we could alongside our  allies.  I would suggest that casualties, by percentage of men landing were  similar across national lines.

I'm just pointing out that I think it's cool that our men voluntasrily went  forth even though their risk was greater.

Everythinmg I ever say is qualified by: IMHO, YMMV, FWIW (in any order)

>> On 9/11 we were right there with all sorts of assistance. We sent in
>> 100s of firemen & paramedics to scour the wreckage for survivers.
> I don't know what we did for them on 9/11. I was too busy being stunned that
> ANYONE would intentionally kill that many people, and themselves, at once.

I read the reports after the fact.  On the day I, too, was stunned at the  enormity of what happened. That someone attacked the USA with an act of war (I  worried about WW3, honestly, & was sad that my disability meant I couldn't  participate(to do my pasrt, not in a blodthirsty way--just want to volunteer as others I've known have done when the times warranted--if global war were the  case.)

>> We were instrumental in making the Northwest Passage navigable, by
>> inventing all sorts of quality icebreaker technologies/ships.
> Do you really think anyone else would? The Northwest Passage is almost
> literally Canadian waters!

But making the passage passable, & granting global access in our waters, is  something we did mainly for OTHERS not only for ourselves.

>> I love Okanagan fruit & Purdy's cgocolate; both home-grown Canadian
>> products!
> OMG! I grew up in the Okanagan Valley! Now, you're getting my camraderie!

I grew up on peacgers, pears, & apricots my dad bouight every fall, & camnmed  in 1qt mason jats do we had healthy prewsevered fruit all year for  desserts/etc.

> The one thing that separates us from our neighbours, besides our spelling of
> 'neighbour', is pride. I'm sorry for playing Devil's Advocate here, but you
> sound like a 'Murican living in Canada, to me. Don't let pride lead you
> astray, fellow Canuck!
> Nobody has ever had to say "Canada, fuck yeah!". Because we don't need to
> remind the world. They already know. (I had to watch the movie when I heard 
the song quoted a while back.)

It's still okay to think on the good things we've done & do. . .

I'm not trying to say we're the greatest, cuz that's a rude claim.

To paraphrase, & clean up, someone else:

What if there's a nation somewhere in an unexplored jungle where half the  population will be your slave for a day for 5c & the other half is handing out  free nickels?

Juist saying I'm proud to be part of a country that is a doer.

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)

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