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General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
At least the LAV is having one positive influence: getting us to talk about it.

For me, Remembrance Day is about guilt and shame and inadequacy. Guilt that conflict raged and rages while here I sit, shuffling electrons around. Shame at atrocities national and local, caused by and done in the name of those conflicts. And feeling that no amount of remembering or thanking or thinking could possibly be adequate to repay the sacrifices of our armed forces past and present, or to ensure that we minimize them in future.

The presence of the LAV reminds me of present conflicts. It reminds me that the popular image of elderly veterans wearing poppies is only one view.

And it makes me glad it's here instead of being needed out there.
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RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours - by chutten - 11-14-2016, 01:33 PM

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