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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
I don't want to be misunderstood. I am not excusing Cherry. He needed to apologize and did not (at least to the extent required). Ok.
He is a staunch supporter of veterans and I think he has done a lot of good in that regard.
I guess my point is when you look at everything that's happened since, particularly bigots like Gruden, I wondered if Cherry was treated properly.
Some comments are fireable offenses.
I can't recall whether SN would have allowed him to continue had he apologized.
Anyway I was thinking about him when I donned my poppy the other day.
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It's funny this got bumped, as me, my brother and father were also talking about Cherry yesterday, but likely from a slightly different perspective.
We were talking about my grandfather.
He passed before I was born but fought in WW2 for the Indian-British army. He was stationed in Burma vs the Japanese forces.
Though I never got to meet him, I have stories of his military service, photos, and even have his medals tattoo'd on my arm as a reminder that his sacrifice gave me the life I have today.
It's because of his service to the Indian military (under British rule), our family was offered immigration to the UK and then eventually some of my family immigrated to Canada in 1981 from there (where I was born).
If it wasn't for his service I may have been born in a small village in India, and likely be a farmer today getting beat up by authorities in the protests going in there.
It's incredible how a life can change on these decisions and sacrifices by those before us.
I love Don Cherry's support of veterans, and don't view him as a villain.
I think he generally meant well but was from a time and mindset what was misguided.
What Cherry's rant failed to understand and that people like my family are both "you people that come here" and "these guys paid the way for your life in Canada"
That's what Canada is all about.
He statement painted a narrative that immigrants are the one's ungrateful and white Canadians are the ones who sacrificed.
The reality is there are ungrateful idiots of all colours and sacrifices from all colours.
His attention to veterans and honouring them was admirable, but the lines he drew about who did and didn't was offensive, inaccurate & un Canadian.
I too wish he worded it better, but it was time for him to leave the limelight.