“…we’re as far away from the end of WW1 now as people buying Elvis Presley’s first hits were from the Civil War.”
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Rick McGinnis writes about (and photographs) various ceremonies around the city this morning.
My concern, not one voiced by Rick, is that as Toronto becomes less Anglo-Saxon, the wars commemorated will end up being Rwanda or some other basketcase crap and not the really important (i.e. “white imperialist”) ones.
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