tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post3568842706981727770..comments2023-11-03T07:23:30.909-05:00Comments on The Monarchist 2.0: For King and EmpireUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-46989808993304658082007-11-07T11:16:00.000-05:002007-11-07T11:16:00.000-05:00Monash and Currie were probably the two most outst...Monash and Currie were probably the two most outstanding field commanders of the Great War. When the two Anzac and Canadian dominion corps fought as one for the first time on Aug 8, 1918, it was "Black Day" for the German Army. The two overstrengthed corps were really full fledged field armies, but extra lean and mean due to the fact that they came without that extra layer of command bureaucracy that all British armies came with.The Monarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362198840081512460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-91079965147199336592007-11-06T22:08:00.000-05:002007-11-06T22:08:00.000-05:00Fine sentiments.We have been collectively forced t...Fine sentiments.<BR/><BR/>We have been collectively forced to digest a revisionist history that eschews our Imperial heritage. It is bollocks, and nothing more.<BR/><BR/>Each of us must commit to challenging the self-loathing, anti-historical orthodoxy of our time.<BR/><BR/>MBMatt Bondyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07051875892264945354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-74414890488241593802007-11-06T21:10:00.000-05:002007-11-06T21:10:00.000-05:00Cato,My own view is that Imperial Federation was a...Cato,<BR/><BR/>My own view is that Imperial Federation was a great lost opportunity. As for admitting Britain into Confederation I'd be all for it. Rideau Hall isn't as fine as Buck House, but the natural scenery more than makes up for that.<BR/><BR/>Beaverbrook,<BR/><BR/>"Your names will be revered for ever and ever by your grateful country"<BR/><BR/>I can't tell you how much I wish that were true. In very every school and university in the country, built before 1945, there is a plaque to honour these men. They gather dust. History is so poorly taught in this country that there is no sense of what these men did and why it matters. <BR/><BR/>They say Canadians have a weak sense of identity and are disinterested in their political system. Well, of course, they know nothing about its past. It's the same reason why there is such a frustrating indifference to the monarchy in Canada. So few understand why we have a monarchy in the first place.<BR/><BR/>It all fits together. We can't honour these men properly without trying to understand them, understand why they died for King and Empire.Kiplinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04838567321326673782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-16692633660283356392007-11-06T21:00:00.000-05:002007-11-06T21:00:00.000-05:00So it be, some ninety years on, they be so revered...So it be, some ninety years on, they be so revered.<BR/><BR/>By us.<BR/><BR/>Here.<BR/><BR/>I wonder what they would make of that.<BR/><BR/>As we do so we also remember our own family, friends and acquaintances. Those who died, well before their time, often in the most terrible of ways. Speaking most personally, I would like to give just one example. For I can't think of a much worse death than drowning. Can you?<BR/><BR/>Yet these names not be known by the many. Only by those who knew and did love them. We remember.Sir Edward Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10015408685370714759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-9337791779494876382007-11-06T18:48:00.000-05:002007-11-06T18:48:00.000-05:00A potential first step in our consolidation: Brita...A potential first step in our consolidation: Britain applies to join the Canadian confederation. Thoughts?<BR/><BR/>CatoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-59261613741387860322007-11-06T18:13:00.000-05:002007-11-06T18:13:00.000-05:00Beaverbrook, I’m a bit of a Great War buff and kno...Beaverbrook, I’m a bit of a Great War buff and know that this great Canadian should be better known. We in Australia had Monash and he is better known these days and Arthur Currie should be as well. The Crown will never forget the debt it owes Canada.David Byershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16964387756766124214noreply@blogger.com