"TheStiggyOne" (thestiggyone)
11/11/2018 at 11:00 • Filed to: None
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"TheStiggyOne" (thestiggyone)
11/11/2018 at 11:00 • Filed to: None | 2
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For last year’s Rememberance Day, I visited our only civic cemetery, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , since it is actually quite close to where I live. Here are some of the pictures I took on that day.
I have scheduled this to be posted at 100th anniversary of
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there is a very good chance that
when this post goes live, I am actually at the very same place, again walking about.
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As the only city-run cemetery in Vancouver, it contains a section maintained by the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to inter the war deads from both World Wars:
Another (far larger) section is maintained by !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , to inter Canadian Armed Forces veterans who have survived the conflicts :
Finally, the part that I admit touched me the most... the “Infant Area” that was recently landscaped into a dry stream bed, and placed here are carved stones displaying the names (or lack thereof) for each infant who were stillborn or died shortly after birth, and then buried here:
winterlegacy, here 'till the end
> TheStiggyOne
11/11/2018 at 11:07 |
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Cemetaries are painful to visit because you know exactly what happened.
average user
> TheStiggyOne
11/11/2018 at 11:08 |
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Meanwhile the Boob in chief decided to skip the visit to the cemetery because of “bad weather”. Can Trudeau invade and become president please?
Svend
> TheStiggyOne
11/11/2018 at 11:23 |
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Lest we forget the men of yesterday, who gave their todays, for our tomorrows.
There is a Remembrance Day concert at the Royal Albert Hall each year. They do a paper poppy drop for each British and Commonwealth life lost, it’s incredibly moving.
From a Commonwealth brother, we will remember.
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Svend
> TheStiggyOne
11/11/2018 at 15:45 |
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Does the cemetery fly both the Red Ensign and the Maple Leaf flags or just the Maple Leaf?
There was some contention a few years ago when some provinces banned the flying of the Red Ensign for official purposes but many military veterans got them over turned saying they fought and lost friends under the Red Ensign so they should be able to fly either or both.
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TheStiggyOne
> Svend
11/11/2018 at 19:03 |
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Just the Maple Leaf here.
To be honest, I did not know that there was even such a debate, until you prompted me to look it up.
Irregardless of my own thought on the matter... I will only point out that we no longer have any Great War veterans left to consult on their preference :-P
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Svend
> TheStiggyOne
11/11/2018 at 19:29 |
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Thanks.
The debate in some areas had been going on for a while (some since 2007, some individual cases only being in the last year or so), but mainly WWII vete rans. Though the Red Ensign was different prior to 1921, just as it was post 1957 .
There are many reasons for some Canadians wanting to fly the old Red Ensign, either protest about liberals, changes made in the 1950s - 60s, some out of how it’s distanced itself from Britain and the Commonwealth, some out of how Cana da Day was changed from the original Dominion Day, etc...
1907, 1921 and 1957.
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TheStiggyOne
> Svend
11/11/2018 at 19:46 |
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Yeah, wishes of actual veterans are to be respected... and, for the Great War, there are none left... but there always seems to be some who push the agenda, who claim to speak for those long past, with motives that ought to be questioned.
It will be akin to people demanding for the “two-leopards” for official events at Hastings or the Portcullis for the same at Bosworth Field, and just as sensical in my mind....
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Svend
> TheStiggyOne
11/11/2018 at 20:24 |
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In this case that wasn’t the issue. T he vetera ns wanted the legal right to fly the flag while others just flew it anyway.
The veterans wanted to fly it from cemeteries, Royal Canadian Legion buildings, etc... so needed the legal issue resolved while the others simply flew them from their houses of which many officials simply didn’t care as it was a valid flag to them.
Though since 2017 some Canadian white supremacists have used the Red Ensign for their own purposes.
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> TheStiggyOne
11/11/2018 at 20:25 |
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Not sure if you are interested!