The Stamp That Forgot What Remembrance Day Means
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Summary
This year, Canada Post unveiled a new stamp to mark Remembrance day featuring a Sikh soldier. They say it's meant to honour Sikh Canadians who fought in World War I. But let's be honest about this, about 620,000 Canadians served overseas, and only around 10 were Sikh. And yet they're the ones being highlighted on this year's stamp?
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Today's Remembrance Day, the day we honor the Canadians who fought, bled, and died for this
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country. And this year, Canada Post unveiled a new stamp to mark the occasion, featuring a Sikh
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soldier. They say it's meant to honor Sikh Canadians who fought in World War I. But let's
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be honest about this, in World War I, about 620,000 Canadians served overseas, and only around 10
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were Sikh, and yet they're the ones being highlighted on this year's stamp? I do not
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want to hear people go it's just a stamp because you are the same one who goes it's just a statue
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it's just a street name it's just a picture on money it's just a national anthem well you know
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what it's just your nation this is what happens when symbolism matters more than proportion
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when the government cares more about diversity optics than about truth or sacrifice this is
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what happens when a government mocks and tears down its own history when it spits on the graves
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of the men who actually built this country. In World War I, men crawled through mushy mud
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in the freezing trenches at Vimy Ridge, choking on gas and gunpowder. Entire platoons wiped out
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in minutes. In World War II, boys barely out of high school stormed the beaches of Normandy under
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machine gunfire to be gruesomely and vitally slaughtered. In Korea, they held the line at
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Ka Pyeong against overwhelming odds. They fought through brutally cold mountains and monsoon rains
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often cut off from supplies. In Afghanistan, troops patrolled dusty roads not knowing which
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one was mined. To this day, those veterans still take their own lives because even though they
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left that war, that war never left them. Back home, mothers opened their doors greeted by their
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greatest fear, the words, we regret to inform you. Children were robbed of their fathers and now we
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honor and remember none of that we were placed with ideology lies and forgetting why not honor
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a real hero like leo major put him on a stamp he landed on d-day lost an eye refused to go home
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and then deep in the night he single-handedly liberated a major dutch city occupied by the
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germans one man one rifle one night by morning they were gone that's leo major that's grit that's
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courage that's resilience that's loyalty that's a canadian that's canada that's who we are that's
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what we're made of. The Germans couldn't believe how great we were. They started calling us
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stormtroopers. Their own word for elite shock troops. Fearless, unpredictable, impossible to
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stop. One German officer even wrote, these Canadians fight like Russians. We tore through
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Hitler's SS in brutal close quarters combat. Flamethrowers, grenades, gunshots. It was raw
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courage Canadians weren't just brave they were unbreakable our enemies didn't just respect us
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they feared us our allies knew who the real leaders were we will not forget who we were
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we will not forget our legacy we will not forget our soldiers and by God we will not forget what
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this government has done our nation will put Canadians first and together we will take our