XPost: edm.general, can.general, can.politics   
   From: roborat13@hotmail.com   
      
   "The Doctor"  wrote in message   
   news:l5j3b5$ist$1@gallifrey.nk.ca...   
   > In article <652p79dnifqkvjcu6ljo0dp4t3sh9ik90p@4ax.com>,   
   > John Fleming   wrote:   
   >>[Default] On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:34:33 -0700, while chained to a desk   
   >>in the scriptorium "Robert Weldon"  wrote:   
   >>> $"The Doctor"  wrote in message   
   >>> $news:l5g4gh$8vi$1@gallifrey.nk.ca...   
   >>> $> 11 Nov is coming.  I finally got my poppy.   
   >>> $>   
   >>> $> I will attend a Remembrance Cereminy this Monday .   
   >>> $   
   >>> $Good for you.  More people should honour the reason for this day off.   
   >>> $   
   >>> $> Let us recall that this weekend is remembrance weekend.   
   >>> $   
   >>> $It is a day, not a weekend.   
   >>   
   >>Don't confuse Mr. Yadallee here with facts.   
   >>   
   >>> $> Vimy Ridge,  Liberation of the Extermation of Semites, the   
   >>> $> halting of Communism.   
   >>> $   
   >>> $Strange wording there (Liberation of the Extermation of Semites), and   
   >>> $Remembrance Day has nothing to do with halting Communism.   
   >>   
   >>Good point Robert.  On Armistice Day in 1918, nobody was really   
   >>thinking about halting Communism--except the White Russians.   
   >>   
   >>As to the other big war (WW2), the Communist Soviet Union was on our   
   >>side at the end of the war.   
   >>   
   >>> $> LEst We Forget.   
   >>   
   >>You've already forgotten a few things.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Looks like John forgot about the Korean War.   
   >   
      
   Rememberance Day was established long before that, and technically, it was a   
   police action, not a war.   
      
   -rest snipped   
      
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