THE CBC TONIGHT NOVEMBER 11TH.
PART WAS ABOUT THIS CANADIAN INDIAN MAN IN WORLD WAR ONE.
INDIANS WERE NOT ALLOWED, BUT SOMEHOW THIS MAN GOT IN, THROUGH THE RED TAPE OR WHATEVERS.
THE CHRONICLE OF HIS WAR EXPLOITS, INJURIES, FIGHTING ON, HEROISM.....THE MOST DECORATED CANADIAN IN THAT WAR.
JUST UNREAL. HUMANLY SPEAKING, I WAS AMAZED.
WHAT HE DID, WHAT HE WENT THROUGH.... JUST UNREAL.
HE THEN CAME BACK TO CANADA AND THE GOVERNMENT WANTED HIM TO DISAPPEAR INTO THE INDIAN WORLD, AS IF HE NEVER EXISTED.
HE HAD TO FIGHT FOR HIS PENSION. HE FOUGHT FOR INDIAN RIGHTS. HE HAD TO FIGHT THE GOVERNMENT HE WAS A HERO OF IN THAT "WAR TO END ALL WARS" - THAT "GREAT WAR" AS THEY ARE NOW CALLING IT.
HE FINALLY DID MAKE SOME HEADWAY AGAINST A HARD-NOSED AND SHAMEFUL CANADIAN GOVERNMENT, WHO FINALLY SMARTED UP WITH FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE, THOUGH IT WAS STILL ON-GOING AFTER HIS HE DIED IN HIS EARLY 60s.
IT WAS THE SAME KIND OF THING FOR THE AMERICAN BLACKS WHO FOUGHT VALIANTLY IN WW2. MANY BEING DECORATED FOR BRAVERY.
THEY CAME BACK TO RACISM AND BIGOTRY AND HATEFULNESS IN TOO MUCH OF THE USA.
FOR A LITTLE INSIGHT TO THAT SEE THE RECENT MOVIE "42" - THE JACKIE ROBINSON TRUE LIFE STORY,
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