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No pride in harbouring cowards from U.S.
Aw, it must have been such a beautiful moment. There was a conference of Vietnam-era draft dodgers and deserters in B.C. last weekend, coming together after all these years to celebrate their deep-seated courage in avoiding service in the Vietnam war by coming to Canada. They unveiled a statue showing a Canadian welcoming two fleeing Americans with open arms. The sculpture was originally to have found a home in a municipal setting, but the national uproar it touched off sees it now in a private gallery in Nelson. I think the fuss would have been more muted had the statue perhaps better reflected the reality of those times. Shoulda been a chicken hiding behind a beaver. Yep. A beautiful moment. That is if you were born without the capacity to feel shame. Let's get something clear here. Vietnam was a moral war. A bunch of folks written off at the time as loonies by the left predicted that if South Vietnam fell it would become a brutal Communist dictatorship that would herd dissidents into concentration camps, that other south Asian nations would also fall. Well, after Saigon fell, those predictions came true. Life in Vietnam, particularly for ethnic Chinese, became so horrific that it gave birth to the boat people, who were thousands of desperate souls who crammed themselves and their children into leaky boats and cast themselves into the ocean to get away from the monsters who'd "liberated" their homeland. They became fodder for sharks and pirates, but it was worth the risk to get out of yet another "people's democratic republic" under a red flag. Posted by: Fred 2006-07-17 |
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