This letter says alot..............I served for 13 years...........and this letter makes me even prouder to be Canadian

 

 

Subject: Sunday Telegraph (London) of Sunday, July 8, 2007 salutes Canada

 

Well, interesting articles........ and having served alongside many Air Force individuals, of the nationalities making up this great country, I can absolutely assert that the issue of which accent any of us were blessed with did not in anyway take away from our collective desire to serve our 'Canadian' Country to the best of our ability, and be damned to the politicians who created devisive issues to further their political agenda and garner votes in Quebec. This service is being continued proudly by each of the Canadian Armed Forces, from all sections of Canada, including the proud Regiment from Quebec.

 

I would hope that my French-Canadian colleagues do not harbour any ill-feelings that arose from our daily exchanges in humourous repartee as we went about our varous aerial tasks. I certainly don't, and indeed that close connection to each other has created a life-long admiration and friendships between us. Joe

 

This was sent to me by another ex-Brit. He always expresses his thoughts rather well.

 

Hi Everyone,

 

Do hope that all is going well for you and that you are enjoying the spell of good weather that arrived here on the West Coast this week.

 

This was forwarded to me by a friend and I see at the end the originator asked that it would be sent on.

 

I think the piece expresses very much how little people both in and outside Canada know of just how much Canada has given in the struggles against - and there is no other words for it - tyranny.

 

The author of the piece put his finger on the reason that the world knows so little of what Canada did and is still doing. The noise made by the United States not only drowns the few trumpet notes made by Canada but has given Canadian politicians an inferiority complex that they don't hear the tune either.

 

As an ex Brit I am deeply grateful to the tremendous support that Canada gave to the UK in both world wars. It took the Canadians to break the German line in WW1 and show the way for later British, French and American troops assaults that finally defeated the German army.

 

In WWII long before America got into the war Canada was helping to get the convoys across to the UK to prevent us from starving.

 

The Canadian troops came across the Atlantic very quickly to help provide a shield against German invasion after the debacle of the Phony War.

 

Canadian airman served with the RAF some as early as the Battle of Britain and later in Bomber Command as the war was taken to Germany.

 

It was Canadian troops that were used as the Dieppe test of Hitler's Atlantic Wall. And as well as being among the first to land in France on D-Day it was Canadian troops that largely liberated Holland. Canadian industry produced vast quantities of ammunition and war material and it was Canada that provided that great training programme for pilots for not only their own air in the UK but also for training of the British replacement crews.

 

This is my opinion but I think part of the reason why Canadian trumpets have been muted is that Canadian politicians fearing to upset the Quebecois who by and large were very reluctant to support Canadian military efforts. Canadian politicians rely on the Quebecois to give them majorities in Parliament and even up to now favour Province of Quebec.

 

I do not think that it has been the French-Canadian troops that have ever dragged their feet as one of the crack regiments is The Van Doux's stationed in Quebec City. They are currently being killed in Afghanistan. It is the Quebec politicians that seem to frighten the politicians from the other founding nation.

 

I do not know what prompted the writer to pen that article in the Telegraph but I am pleased that he did so.

 

Cheers, best wishes from DonC

Canadians are some of the nicest people I've met. Went to school with quite a few. Canada, also thanks for Shania Twain and Pamela Anderson.