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09/09/2004 Archived Entry: "Draft-dodger memorial to be built in B.C."

Posted by steve @ 06:19 PM EST [Link]

WHY NOT ADD A MEMORIAL TO ALL THE WARS CANADA DIDN'T FIGHT IN?: I'm only 33 but I feel jaded beyond my years. That's why I barely registered a rise in temperature when I learned that activists in British Columbia plan to erect a memorial to Vietnam War draft dodgers.

"This will mark the courageous legacy of Vietnam War resisters and the Canadians who helped them resettle in this country during that tumultuous era," Isaac Romano, the director of the Our Way Home festival told a news conference in Nelson Tuesday.

The event will honour people who came to Canada and resisted war efforts, from burning their draft cards during the Vietnam War to leaving the army to protest the war in Iraq, Romano said.

Musicians -- many of who participated in the anti-war movement -- will play at the festival, scheduled for July 8-9, 2006. Historians and critics of U.S. foreign policy will speak and a documentary about American war resisters by director Michelle Mason will be screened.

It usually takes most people decades to turn as jaded as I feel some days.