Highway of Heroes

[fjrob1300]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j25jOyzvhAc

This is a video of The Highway of Heroes. The highway is a link between AFB Trenton and Toronto. It passes through my local community. I have been on the highway when the motorcade went by and on the bridges as they passed under. I have not met any of the soldiers personally but I have many friends that have. Every time this event happens my heart just breaks! We honour our Soldiers as best we can. These men and women do what they do because they just want to help others. They are far away from home helping a neighbour, a friend. I would ask no less in my time of need.

Rob

 

[bikerskier]

Thanks for sharing that, Rob. Very beautiful and touching. We all respect and so very much appreciate the service and sacrifice of soldiers and their families. God bless them all!

 

[BugR]

Another four dead this weekend, you have to wonder if we are doing any good over there.

Chris

 

[user 6393]

Thanks for posting...

:exhappysmiley:

 

[High Desert Rat]

I appreciate my friends to the north. May God bless all who have suffered....

 

[Mike-H]

Me thinks it's getting time for our people to come home....

 

[Bungie]

Me thinks it's getting time for our people to come home....

Here here.

 

[jmdaniel]

Just got back from a week in Ontario, (mother-in-law in Kitchener, father-in-law in Clinton, wickedly fun wedding party at the Oakville Powerboat Club Saturday night...), and I have to throw in a comment on the Highway to Heroes, specifically the writings of this guy:

Linky

evidently, this writer has never heard of the Patriot Guard Riders, and has never ridden in an escort line, bringing a US soldier to his final resting spot. Obviously, it's great that Canada has a method in place, (and I agree that these soldiers need to be here at home), just thought it odd that this columnist was taking a very misinformed swipe at my country.

 

[YooperDick]

Patriot Group Riders

Just to correct the record, we call ourselves the Patriot Guard Riders.

 

[Bungie]

I know a sapper and a few others in the Cdn Forces that would willingly volunteer to pay a visit to Fox ******' news. Of all the disrepectful, worthless pieces of oxygen consumption on the planet...

 

[jmdaniel]

Patriot Group Riders
Just to correct the record, we call ourselves the Patriot Guard Riders.

Of course; I guess I was caught up in indignation. Thx for the correction.

 

[El Cajone]

Just got back from a week in Ontario, (mother-in-law in Kitchener, father-in-law in Clinton, wickedly fun wedding party at the Oakville Powerboat Club Saturday night...), and I have to throw in a comment on the Highway to Heroes, specifically the writings of this guy:
Linky

evidently, this writer has never heard of the Patriot Guard Riders, and has never ridden in an escort line, bringing a US soldier to his final resting spot. Obviously, it's great that Canada has a method in place, (and I agree that these soldiers need to be here at home), just thought it odd that this columnist was taking a very misinformed swipe at my country.

I don't disagree with you, JM; I think the writer was treading on some very sensitive ground and I was a bit uncomfortable with the article which had an air of moral superiority and that could be interpreted to say that "we Canadians grieve our fallen soldiers better than you grieve yours". Nevertheless, I think he was really trying to make the argument that all fallen soldiers fighting the war against terrorism deserve our maximum possible respect. But he could have expressed it better.

I also hope you would agree, given the high number of Canadian combat casualties in Afghanistan, that this segment which recently appeared on FOX news was totally inappropriate and that the jackasses responsible for it should be fired:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJn5XlbSFk

The thought that the families of our dead and wounded might see this piece of garbage is disturbing.

 

[jmdaniel]

Boy, that is a room full of tools.... :angry2:

 

[bikerskier]

If the network thought that was funny...

From a dual CDN / US citizen, I will hold my tongue, lest anything I say might be held against me in a court of law...

******* douchetards!