tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192755.post3404313339305327618..comments2024-02-06T06:13:38.832-04:00Comments on Canadian Studies: White Poppies and Remembrance DayAndrew Nursehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09012072560091351361noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192755.post-88555701740565446122010-11-24T04:44:34.684-04:002010-11-24T04:44:34.684-04:00I have never been a fan of the services that are h...I have never been a fan of the services that are held. Not only do they reek of people forced to go out of "respect", but the last one I attended was mostly devoted to naming the various corporate sponsors who donated money and a wreath to the event.<br />I do 2 minutes of silence. 2 minutes to try and instill the idea that everything I do and live for has been fought for tooth and nail; an idea that sticks for quite some time.<br />As for teaching, I am not so sure how to approach it. In high school I took a Canadian History class with a confessed military history fan. I found it important to learn about the battles and details not only for the political insight you gain in learning just WHY we fight and what benefits a country can experience when in or involved in a war. At the same time, learning about some of the more terrible moments in our military history only served to tell me that "oversight is bad" and "occasionally, we fight in shitty places that we never advance on" (the point i think was to instill some kind of idea of how terrible war is to kids who more than obviously had never been in worse conflict than a pushfight)<br /><br />Well I've typed too much and too quickly.Samhttp://thumbfuckers.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com