In April 2002, after we lost four young soldiers overseas, a writer for the Sunday Telegraph wrote this article, a piece of which is quoted below.
It seems that Canada’s historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.
Sadly, it is still true today.
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The US is still at war over sea. I did vote for Obama. And hopeful he will get the job done and bring our troops home. I don’t know any one on a personal leavel that is there but I do fell bad for all the people that lost there lives same like 9/11.