We do enjoy the civil liberties of freedom. We enjoy so much that the forefathers fought for. It is.very Canadian - very kind, very honourable, very human - to remember. It is also true however that what we enjoy today is also the cessation of the mistakes of the past. We are so protected from what we used to have to do.
We like to think that gone are the days where we would be drafted, forcd to kill pther human beings to protect our lands. But this is not true. Our ability to sit and not fight is not a function of our humane awareness but rather a function of supply and demand. There is simply not enough supply if military wars to warrant mandatory demand for soliders.
But the world is still a battlefield, a battlefield of the soul and mind, and we should remember today that we have all been drafted to protect our race, our species, from the threats againat our good nature. Which of us will fight this war?
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