"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." * Martin Luther King Jr. // * "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." * George Orwell // Want to contact the Stubble Jumping Redneck? Shoot her an email @ oldweesie@sasktel.net
Labels: war, Western Civilization
posted by Louise at 10:45 am
A stubble jumper is a prairie farmer. I'm from Saskatchewan and my dad was a farmer, so the name is apt. "Redneck" needs no explanation. It's anyone who disagrees with a lunatic leftie. My blog is mostly about the Middle East but other issues also catch my eye and get me going. I monitor comments to keep out trolls and lunatic lefties. Anyone who is zealously anti-American and anti-democracy in the Middle East is NOT welcome.
Various Anglos Elsewhere (With Thanks to the British Empire)
ROTFLMAO!
Who Needs the Canadian Broadcorping Castration (CBC) When You've Got This?
RadioVideo
AGW Scam Busters
Right Thinking Columnists
Good Stuff
6 Comments:
Years ago, when in college after my military service, I knew a lady, a fellow student, formerly Dutch, now American.
She was born and raised in a small town in Holland. Her father passed away when she was little, leaving her mother a widow.
Came World War Two and the German conquest of Holland. Her mother joined the Dutch Resistance. One day, the Germans caught her mother and a few men smuggling guns in that town. The German occupying troops forced most of the townspeople to come to the town square to witness the summary execution of the captured Dutch Resistance people. The lady, my friend, then a young girl, was forced by the Germans to stand in the front row of spectators and a German soldier held her head between his hands, forcing her to watch her mother and the others being executed by a German firing squad.
A couple of years later and -Halleluiah!- liberation of that town by Canadian Soldiers. The liberation didn't come without cost. There was a firefight between the advancing Canadian and retreating German forces in which some Canadian Soldiers and Dutch civilians were killed.
As she was telling me of the liberation, she was smiling and tears were also streaking her face. She spoke really gratefully of those Canadian Soldiers and will never forget either day.
The moral, I think, is that Freedom isn't free and that the true peacekeepers are Liberators, like the Canadian and Allied servicemen and women of World War Two. At a terrible cost, they liberated hundreds of millions from tyranny and prevented a new Dark Ages.
One of those liberated was a young orphan girl in a small town in Holland, who hasn't forgotten.
As far as I know The Netherlands still donates a large quantity of tulip bulbs to Ottawa annually. They are planted every spring. This gift from the Dutch people is a "thank you" to Canadian forces for their roll in liberating Holland and for Canada's roll in providing a safe haven for the Dutch Royal Family during the war.
Members of the Dutch Royal family stayed in Canada during the German occupation, so they would be safe. One of their daughters was born in Canada. So yes, there are strong ties that originated during WWII.
For years after the war, my parents corresponded with a Dutch family and they with us. I remember my mom having to get the letters translated into and from the Dutch language (a local Dutch family had the honour).
I have a cousin whose wife is from France. She also has some memories of German occupation, which have been shared with us.
Make that "role" not "roll". I do proof read, but obviously don't see any mistakes until I come back later.
Just did some Wiki reading, starting at your link, on the Dutch Royals. Their women sound much more impressive than do the Windsor men.
Compared to Chucky-Pooh, almost anyone would be more impressive. If it wasn't for his mother and his second son, I'd say the House of Windsor is a write-off.
Post a Comment
<< Home