An example for the rest of the west

Canada, that big mass of cold weather and pine forests up north of us may be the butt of a lot of our jokes but they as a people have an honor and sense of pride that people here in The States and Britain get an 'F', if we were to be graded.



It's troop support.



Most of the people who are going off to foreign lands to risk their lives come home to be treated as if they did some horrible in justice. I think it's just wrong and many people have just lost their respect that these young men and women easily have earned.



Which brings me back to Canada.



From the air base in Trenton, Ontario, the funeral cortege passes along motorways lined with scores of people holding Canadian flags, some with a hand on their heart, carrying banners emblazoned with the words "we support our troops."
All 50 of the motorway bridges on the journey into Toronto were said to have been packed with the general public.
As the cortege passes fire engines and police cars, officers and emergency workers solemnly salute as children wave flags.



Seriously, this is how it's supposed to be done. It's the least we could do for the fallen men and women who died for the liberties we take for granted.