We Owe Our Freedom To People We Never Met

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A Day For Reflection

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Welcome to this very short version of the Rant Network. Today is Remembrance Day in Canada and the UK, Veterans Day in the United States. It's a time for reflection. It's a time for the West to remember why our grandparents, great-grandparents sacrificed themselves for a better life. It's incredible when you think about it,

Why The World Wars Happened

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even great-great-grandparents. When you go back to World War I, why? Why did our why did Canadian soldiers fight alongside the Brits in Europe and French? And why is it that in World War II, America changed the world? War in the 20th century was the worst, most vicious, the highest number of deaths in history occurred in the 20th century. Nothing worse than the Second World War. The first world war, we didn't learn enough. We didn't learn enough to stop a Second World War.

World War II And Moral Clarity

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But the second world war, as I said, changed our world forever. But we realized that after empires falling, and after so many countries wanted to rule the world, and many certain cases, in ways that were not the way we would want to live. This was what World War II was going to be all about. No one intended this to really happen, nobody wanted war. But the way it turned out, World War II was about good versus evil. You had Germany, Japan, and Italy working alongside each other, at the beginning with Russia, and then

The Holocaust And The Meaning Of Evil

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Russia switched sides. But Germany was in was in global conquest, sharing their fascist ideology. Now many people who are listening to this rant are going to say, well, Trump's a fascist. Well, think again. Because what Hitler did in World War II was above the pale, beyond the pale. It was vile. Slaughtering millions of people in concentration camps, six million Jews, others that he found to be not pure, not pure racist, pure race as he defined it, which included homosexuals, which included the people who had mental deficiencies, which included people who he felt just didn't fit the Aryan mold. And so, along with slaughtering millions of people in war, he was trying to create a pure world. That had to be stopped. The United States didn't intend to get into the war, but were dragged in when Japan attacked the United States, essentially, and in December of 1941, and that changed the war. Canada, meanwhile, fought alongside Europe. Not because they had to, but they their alliance in the Commonwealth, they fought alongside for freedom. It wasn't about empires anymore. It was about keeping freedom in our society.

When Schools Stop Teaching History

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Now, unfortunately, afterwards, there was Korea, Vietnam, and we've had all other battles in Afghanistan and Iraq and others. And there are generations out there who actually have no clue, or we've never met a World War II veteran. The reason is because the youngest would be around 99 years old today. It's hard to meet that kind of veteran. They are there and they'll share their stories of what they fought and why they did it, and why they're pained today. But you can also meet Holocaust survivors. People who have who unfortunately were victims, victims of Hitler's goal. But we don't teach this in school anymore. Media doesn't want to talk about it. Politicians want to ignore it. Yeah, sure, in Canada and in England, we wear the poppies. And that's kind of for you know PR. But it's not really meant for like their people are not really want to side with war. But that's not what this is. Today is not about war, today is about understanding why our forefathers fought for our

Disrespect For Veterans Hits Home

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democracy, our freedom. And yet, how many people out there are pissing on these military veterans? There's an incident in Hamilton, Ontario, in which children, these 12-year-old cadets were selling poppies and were beaten up, beaten up. Because they were related to war, they were related to the army. This is the sickening society that we're in today. 9-11 happened. We had a 25th anniversary of 9-11 just two months ago. And we had an election in which people said, yes, America deserves 9-11. What's wrong with us? Where have we gone wrong? On this day, instead of thinking about what we should, what we fought for, the freedom that we crave, we're not caring. We're ignoring the lessons of the past, repeating what happened in the 1930s, and believing that there'll be a different different situation. It'll be a different solution. It's not gonna happen. Society today

Defending Terrorism And Hijacking Remembrance

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is in trouble. None of us want war. None of us want war. Anyone with a half a brain doesn't want war. We understand that. But today we have an unbelievable amount of people who believe that terrorists like Hamas, like Al Qaeda, like the Houthis, like Hezbollah, are in the right. And America, the West, Israel is in the wrong. Is this what our grandparents and great-grandparents fought for? So that you can go and say, you know what, terrorism makes sense.

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How?

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I don't know about you, but I expect when I saw what happened in England, when we see these with the red poppies, and they're and they're all over the place, and someone decided to come up with a Palestinian version, a green, black, white, and red version. Because we you know we need to remember the Palestinian cause. That's a spit on all those people that died on D-Day and other wars to try to protect your freedom. They're trying to hijack this day to make it their own. It doesn't

Preserving Freedom Before It Breaks

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make sense, ladies and gentlemen. We need to look back at history and remember what they did for us. They did it for us so they did it for us so we can live free. They did it for us so we can have a good life. They did it for us so that when you go to the grocery store or a movie, you don't think of anything. There are mean people out there. There are people who want to destroy us, from Iran to North Korea, to China, to Russia. And now you got these Islamic terrorists who are all in this crazy coalition with the socialist movement who believes America, Canada, the West needs to change. It's not absurd, it's obscene.

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This is not the way should be.

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Better.

Warning Signs And Final Takeaway

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So today a moment of silence is not just not enough. It's more than a moment of silence. In our minds, we have to think what we are fighting for, what we want to keep, what do we want to preserve, and how are we going to do it? War is not fun. Nobody wants war. I certainly don't. But if we don't change the way we look at our society today, war is at our doorstep, and the freedom that our forefathers fought for will have been for naught.