Reality of War
Heroes Remember
Reality of War
My proudest moment to be was when
I wear that Canadian flag on my
shoulder and I was a peacekeeper.
That was my proudest moment of
my life because it means something.
We were there to preserve peace,
not to make peace, it was already done,
they decided they would behave
although sometimes they don’t but
that’s the living.
In Israel, every night you don’t go
out in the middle of the night because
they were moving their tanks and
they move their tanks in the dark so
when they are driving they
don’t care what’s in the front.
So you don’t go out at night.
In No Man’s Land in Golan Heights
there was a rock was written, on the rock
was written in the Yom Kippur war,
“Violence is the last resource of the imbecile.”
Someone wrote that in wartime and
that always marked me.
At that time in the seventies,
the Israeli people were happy people.
I went back in 2009 and
they’re not happy anymore because
of all the stuff that happened and
and it’s not the same.
The only thing they told us in Israel
was to be careful about what we are
doing just in case of a terrorism act but
a terrorism act wasn’t that much.
It wasn’t that many people doing it.
They had a special target to obtain but
that wasn’t the same as today.
When I go to schools and I talk to kids
I say you don’t ask a Veteran how
many people he killed because
for you it’s a game, you grew up with
a game for killing people you got points.
Me, I grew up with a dinky toy with a
tank in the middle and played in
the sand but any Veteran if they ever
kill someone it’s between them and
the good Lord.
No one wants to do it but you have to,
sometimes you have to do
what you have to do to stay alive.
You have all those kids today,
they are more informed where
they are going to than we were.
When I arrived in Cyprus the first
thing I went into supply there was
two coffins there in case of.
Unfortunately we had to use one
so it’s a wakeup call when you walk
in and you see the coffin,
that means you’re in serious.
Without that what helped us was the
brotherhood we had between us.
It was like a close family.
For every bad thing we saw we always
kept the good one in mind in
building our wall against it.
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