[QUOTE=Firebot;7270880]Remembrance Day is not a celebration of war, it is a memorial for those who fell protecting this country's values. Those Canadian soldiers were people like you and I who were living in a different reality, one that you had to fight because if you didn't, you would be subject to another nation's values. Most of these soldiers were terrified of death, of war, of being killed, of not seeing their loved ones ever again. But they had to do it. Appeasement and isolationism does not work if someone wants to invade and take what is yours.
According to you, Hong Kong citizens should just give up their freedoms right now, why should they fight? Just appease the Chinese government and sing their praises. Hong Kongers should stop being such troublemakers.
What a leap you've made. I think nothing of the sort. Notwithstanding your oversimplification of the situation in Hong Kong, I said that WWII was a just war. I don't object to it in the least. My grandfather served in it.
Military service for a noble cause - something I acknowledged about WWII and would acknowledge in other military actions since - is something worth recognizing and remembering.
My issue is with the tone and the messaging. There are governments that "won" their way to power through military means and they are generally speaking the most repressive governments in the world - North Korea, China, Vietnam, Cuba and formerly Soviet Russia. Thank God our way of life was not won by way of military actions and that our involvement in military operations has been relatively limited. Let's keep it that way.
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