Walter Huston

Am British, but today received by e-mail address and totally agree with the sentiments expressed:

British newspaper salutes Canada. . . It is a good read. It's funny how it took someone in England to put into words ...

Tribute to a brave and modest
Kevin Myers - 'The Sunday Telegraph, London:

Until the death of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops are deployed in the region.

And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just like the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever .. It seems that Canada 's historic mission is to help selflessly of his two friends and strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, be well and truly ignored.

Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the room, waiting for someone to ask for a dance. A fire broke out, they risked their lives to save his fellow dance enthusiasts, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorous romp through the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.

The price to pay for Canada shares the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two world wars.

For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two directions: It seemed to be a part of the ancient world, but had an address in the new, and that divided identity ensured that n ' has never fully received the recognition he deserved.

Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Nearly 10% of Canada 's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The major Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.

Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by neglect frankly, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed by the popular memory as somehow or other work of the British. "

The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half-dozen vessels, and ended by the police almost half of the Atlantic against the U-boat attacks. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers landed on D-Day alone.

Canada finished the war with the Navy and Air Force third to fourth place in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had last time.

Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an actor a role in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a distinct Canadian identity.

So a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British Columbia.

It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is unwavering in Canada as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find buyers.

In addition, Canada is just as sharply alert to the CHA.