Gibs you may want to edit your original post, look closely at the first line, the last word should be replaced with "grow".
I live in Canada and our culture's appreciation for Canada's war effort is shoddy and embarrassing. When I visited Europe working on a documentary about a Canadian war hero, everyone in the French village (where the crew was hidden by the Resistance) knew the story about Mynarksi and the Lancaster crew. All the war memorials dotting the fields along the roads were amazing while here in Canada most people are clueless about it.
But the tragedy is that the world has not learned that Wars do not solve anything. Bush is willing to kill his own young men for oil and money, just the same way the past leaders did to their own, for glory, territory and the other spoils of war. I agree the common German soldier had no grandiose visions of world domination. They paid in blood for the arrogance of their elitist leaders. Seems things never change. There doesn't seem to be enough senseless deaths in the world to wake people up.
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