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Old 24-10-2007, 20:20   #9
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Re: Honour the Memory, Honour the Covenant.

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Originally Posted by flashytart View Post
Reece knows all about it, but only through me and his grandad telling him about it
That's probably a much better source of info than some sanitized politically correct class in schools. (I noticed that I mentioned the MEN who went and fought, rather than "people." I don't think that this is sexist, only fact. It is different now. One of Canada's casualties in Afghanistan was Capt. Nicola Goddard, an artillery observer in the Kandahar region.) But I would not trust schools alone to educate the young, when the best resource is the history that is in the family. There is a lot to be said for oral history passed on from generation to generation. Local First Nations have oral traditions going back thousands of years.

One could argue that there is no excuse for the ignorance when there is so much info on the net, great sites, like the one for the Pals.
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