Memorial Day

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on May 28th, 2007

From a column by Rick Mercer that appeared in January in the Newfoundland and Labrador Independent:

The gates of Auschwitz were not opened with peace talks. Holland was not liberated by peacekeepers and fascism was not defeated with a deft pen. Time and time again men and women in uniform have laid down their lives in just causes and in an effort to free others from oppression.