A thousand words

jameshues · 6 months

The man crying stands out, but the man behind him invokes just as much.

beefwich · 6 months

Sometimes I forget about the sacrifices Canada makes by having our back (even in pointless endeavors like the "War on Terror"). Regardless of politics, you guys are the best neighbors on the planet. I feel privileged to have Canada as a neighbor and ally.

dyancat · 6 months

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mardy_bum · 6 months

Thought I'd chime in though it's late so it'll get buried. Here's an image I took in Iraq late 2004

DeLoreanMotorCars · 6 months

As former US Military, this pic bothers me because a Canadian probably died in a bullshit US war.

piezoaxis · 6 months

I highly recommend you watch this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3IutxvltBM

fani · 6 months

Loss of life on any side, especially ones cut short abruptly are especially hard.

I also feel for the innocent families and victims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel and other places just as much as US or Canadian or other soldiers. Lives of US soldiers lost by IEDs. Lives of innocent Afghans like that massacre done by the US soldier a couple of months back.

Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jew, Atheist or whatever, lives lost are sad and tragic, especially for those who know them closely.

We must not forget that if we fire a bullet or missile on someone it can be devastating.... both during wars and peace time.

AskingOnce · 6 months

kind of irrelevant and will just be buried but whatever, I feel like typing.

A few years ago, my mother was competing at worlds in team Kata (Karate) in japan, and somehow they had lost the Canadian flag they were supposed to carry into the arena at the front of the Canadian team. In a panic, they were rushing around everywhere trying to find one, naturally, when this former military guy who came along steps up to her and tells her his story.

He was in a base in Afghanistan on patrol when he was suddenly shot by a sniper rifle. He passed out quickly and woke up two weeks later, when he woke up he said that his squad almost cried in relief. He literally had a brush with death. He stayed at the base until it was shut down, at which time he took the bases flag - not technically allowed, but no one stopped him.

Turns out he had this flag with him on the trip, it was like his good luck charm, and he pulls it out of his bag and wraps my mother in it. They went out and performed amazingly to represent Canada, but unfortunately lost.

Anyways, I thought it was kinda a cool story about Canadian soldiers. Irrelevant? Very. Still cool.

Rollingprobablecause · 6 months

I am so tired of these - this is why i stopped doing burial detail for my unit. Not sure i can even look at this stuff anymore :(

Minored · 6 months

Such a powerful photo.

FauxHulk · 6 months

This song was made for this occasion

the_flynn · 6 months

Canadian here.

Americans, don't think of this as a sacrifice for you.

This was a sacrifice for us.

Now, I'm a dirty liberal hippy atheist, but I understand the need for our armed forces.

More importantly, I understand the need for our partnership as neighbours on this great continent of ours.

You're our brothers. Not just in arms, and not just in trade. You're our brothers through the good and the bad, the thick and the thin, and either country would be poorer (in both the financial and spiritual sense) without the other.

So while we salute our armed forces in this thread, never forget to salute yours.

For better or worse, you're our brothers, and we'll always fight by your side.

makis192 · 6 months

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tejasisforlovers · 6 months

I’ll carry this flag to the grave if I must because it’s flag that I love and a flag that I trust.

macman156 · 6 months

I support my Canadian troops, but I just can't support this war when I see things like this.

SGT_Crunch · 6 months

Great pic. A true man can best honor a fallen hero by carrying him on his own back.

Also (not trying to be disrespectful) but the last guy looks like Timothy Olyphant.

SimilarImage · 6 months

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brolaire · 6 months

Here are two: fuck war.

EnduringAtlas · 6 months

Sorry.

ShhGoToSleep · 6 months

Since humans started burying their dead, this has been and will be the heaviest box ever lifted.

And yes, I've done it.

inseconds1234 · 6 months

Interesting: a bunch of people expressed their opposition to war, and a bunch of other people expressed their admiration for these men and whoever is in the coffin as heroes.

Are these statements inherently contradictory? If not, might they yield different results?

Bodie1550 · 6 months

I didn't exactly experience this. But I watched the aluminum coffin containing my high school buddy who had been killed in Vietnam in 1969 being offloaded from the plane at Portland Airport. Then I saw him in an open coffin at the funeral home. Then I attended his burial and spent time with his heart broken family. WAR SUCKS!

lornabalthazar · 6 months

My dad worked with Canadian troops in Kandahar. He may have made fun of them for being wishy-washy and saying "ish" too much (as in, "the meeting will start at 12ish"), but he will defend them tooth and nail if anyone says anything negative about them, and they would do the same for him. He has tons of respect for them (and so do I).

TSP1 · 6 months

The horror resides in how pointless these deaths are. Brave men who are led to believe they are defending us. R.i.P.

ZumboPrime · 6 months

Thank you for uploaded that photo. I know it doesn't do much but I had a moment of silence.

Weathervanes · 6 months

This made me cry

lalagonegaga · 6 months

No one made them do it. It's their own choice to go and fight a pointless war in a foreign country they have no business being in. But then again, I guess that's the country's way of getting rid of its most stupid.

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ramdac · 6 months

War.

[deleted] · 6 months

I'm going to spend some karma here so warm up those down-clickers.

I know Iraq was an illegal fiasco and distracted the US from it's mission. That mission was to unseat the Taliban in Afghanistan. The whole world was behind us when we went in and I truly believe it's a just cause. Religious extremism (any religious extremism) is dangerous and needs to be checked. Look at what's happening to little girls who dare to try to get an education, to young people who want to listen to western music, or to those who choose any faith other than Islam in Afghanistan. They supported bin Laden and continued to allow al Qaida to flourish and train. The madrassas were not teaching math and science, which you people are supposed to love, but religious doctrine that made all non-muslims "infidels" and enemies that don't deserve to live. Ask the average Afghan what they would do if they ever met a Jew.

I believe the work in Afghanistan, at least at first, is a just cause. To want a democratically-elected government in place with a competent police force and military are not evil intentions IMHO.

There. That's my opinion which will surely be met with a shit-ton of down arrows. Have at it. See you in hell.

VonIsengard · 6 months

Everyone with a loved one in a war zone just that horrible knot in their stomach. This stuff is so hard to look at.

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