Comments on: Canada’s Remembrance Day 2005 http://kerfuffles.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/canadas-remembrance-day-2005/ Tintinnabulating Out Kerfuffles With Nattering Palaver Since 2002 AD Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:48:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Gerald Graves http://kerfuffles.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/canadas-remembrance-day-2005/#comment-1182 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:02:46 +0000 http://kerfuffles.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/canadas-remembrance-day-2005/#comment-1182 Rememberance day is this weekend, but how may people have to work on the Saturday? Do not forget that we have a statutory holiday for The Queen (Victoria day-See below) and what did she do for Canada? Yet the day set aside for the men and women who sacrifice their time, their families and their very lives is NOT a statutory holiday. Imagine the man or woman, who fought for our freedom, working for 8 hours this Saturday providing Big Macs at McDonalds or mundane items at a department store on the very day set aside for him and his fallen comrades. I am not about getting a day off for myself (even though I did serve 2 years in the military) but for showing the proper respect for those who served in the extreme (during a time of war). thanks for hearing my rant : ) Rememberance day is this weekend, but how may people have to work on the Saturday? Do not forget that we have a statutory holiday for The Queen (Victoria day-See below) and what did she do for Canada? Yet the day set aside for the men and women who sacrifice their time, their families and their very lives is NOT a statutory holiday. Imagine the man or woman, who fought for our freedom, working for 8 hours this Saturday providing Big Macs at McDonalds or mundane items at a department store on the very day set aside for him and his fallen comrades. I am not about getting a day off for myself (even though I did serve 2 years in the military) but for showing the proper respect for those who served in the extreme (during a time of war).

thanks for hearing my rant : )

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