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My Son‘s Letter Honoring the Fallen Soldiers on Remembrance Day (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_320)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Gatsad a few minutes ago my wife came up to the study and said I want you to read this letter

0:08.8

It's right here in the hand writing of my very young son

0:17.0

He wrote a letter regarding Remembrance Day with some very minor editing coming from my wife and so I thought that I would read it for you here and then make a few

0:27.8

final comments. On Remembrance Day, November 11, 2021, at school we will be having a moment of silence.

0:37.0

During this moment of silence, I will think about these three things.

0:41.9

I will think about the people who fought for me to have a future.

0:45.0

Second, I will think about the sacrifices that they made and the pain that they felt having to leave their families.

0:53.6

Some never came back.

0:55.5

Lastly, I think that we should honor the soldiers that serve to protect us.

1:03.2

In conclusion, I think that Remembrance Day is very important.

1:08.4

I feel like everybody should take a moment of silence

1:11.6

to think about the soldiers who have fallen for us.

1:18.0

This is how you inculcate young people with a love for their countries for a love for what heroes did before them.

1:27.6

You don't teach them to hate their societies.

1:30.5

You don't teach them to hate what others have done so that they can do their political

1:36.4

protests today and act in many cases like buffoons.

1:39.8

It is precisely because Hero said, hey, I want in. I'm willing to go and pay the ultimate

1:46.8

sacrifice so that future generations, like my son, can write this letter, like us coming from Lebanon and having a new life in Canada

1:56.4

That's what you should be honoring that's the kind of message you should be teaching at schools

2:08.2

Now contrast that with the, I mean, parasitic ideas might be too gentle a term, you know, deathly cancerous ideas that have gripped our societies, where it is laudable

2:20.8

to view our societies as soiled, as irreparably damaged, as racist, as homophobic, as

2:30.4

intolerant, when nothing could be further from the truth. I don't mean to

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