A Day of Remembrance 11/11/11

Today all over Canada, people of all different backgrounds were remembering those who had served this country, for this generation to live the way it lives today.

Which brings me to the topic: How does the new breakout of society treat the country today?  If the veterans then knew what society was going to be like now, would they have still fought as hard?

Let's take a look on the last few decades.

After the First World War, people were coming back from overseas to a new world, and a new decade.  The 1920s, also known as the Roaring Twenties to historians, were known for there materialistic lifestyle and optimistic ways of life, heavily influenced by Europe's way if living.

It was a celebration to most, but disappointment to others.  Soldiers coming home were not ready for the joyous celebration so soon, after seeing what they had seen overseas.  They wanted the entire world to be as strict on society as they had been, and they did not see that in any shape in the Roaring Twenties.

After the Second World War, and defeating Hitler and his world domination plans, soldiers again came home from being overseas for x amount of years.  They returned to create their own offspring, ones that can keep the steady tradition of serving their country.

However, that "new generation", known to demographics as the Baby Boomers, created a new way of living in Canada.  Starting in the fifties, when the thought of being a teenager came into affect, to the hippies of the sixties and beyond, the ideals of the greatest generation have slowly leaked into modern day society.  Making the once proud veterans of the wars question what they had done wrong as parents.

Flash forward to 2011.  The occupied movement has been scaling across North America and all over the world.  Media sources from radio to print have been on 24-hour watch on what exactly?  not even the protesters know.

I bet you Shelby the border collie in Denver knows.  But no one speaks dog.

I digress, thinking that the future soldiers of Canada have to fight to protect the people here now.
I find that ridiculous.

"When asked by my grade 12 history teacher why I wanted to fight for a country who doesn't seem to care about patriotism and sense of duty," said Brett Huckstep, a current applicant for the Canadian Forces.  "I replied 'I will fight for their right not to care'."

And I hope he and the rest of those soldiers fight for my right to report on this new and outlandish society.