Let’s Stand Together Against All Threats To Democracy, Foreign Or Domestic
A Brief Commentary by Niagara At Large reporter/publisher Doug Draper
Posted November 11th, 2024 on Niagara At Large
Canadian troops landing in Normandy, France in June of 1944 in the war against Hitler’s Nazis
Almost every Second World War veteran I knew as a fellow worker, as a friend or interviewed for Remembrance Day stories for newspapers I worked for are gone now.
For years now, I haven’t met a single one from that war selling poppies and pinning them ever so carefully and with so much pride on peoples’ lapels as they once did outside of stores in our communities.
All I have left are memories of the horrific stories they told about comrades being blown to pieces during what was a do-or-die war for freedom over fascism.
The iconic soldiers’ memorial near in my childhood home, in Chippawa, Park in Welland, Ontario, bearing the names of young people from the community who fought and died in World Wars One and Two. file photo by Doug Draper
Today, we find ourselves fighting for those democratic rights and freedoms again and we all need to summon the courage to make sure that no one, foreign or domestic, uses whatever stealth means to take those freedoms away.
We need to stand together and remain vigilant in that fight. Wearing a poppy for a few weeks each year is not enough and may even serve as a shield for some who are working against our democratic values.
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Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
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