Canada's Hundred Days

[Colonel]

Believe it or not, Canada was once an awesome country.  I know, it's hard
to believe, but back during WWI (one), Canada reached it's zenith:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s_Hundred_Days

[quote][u]Canada's Hundred Days[/u] is the name given to the series of attacks made by the Canadian Corps between 8 August and 11 November 1918, during the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I. Reference to this period as Canada's Hundred Days is due to the substantial role that Canadian Corps played during the offensive.

During this time, forming part of the British First Army, the Canadian Corps fought in the:

Battle of Amiens,
Second Battle of the Somme,
Battle of the Scarpe,
Battle of the Canal du Nord,
Battle of Cambrai,
Battle of the Selle,
Battle of Valenciennes and finally at
Mons, on the final day of combat before the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

In terms of numbers, during those 96 days the Canadian Corps' [u]four[/u] over-strength or "heavy" divisions totalling roughly 100,000 men, engaged and defeated or put to flight elements of [u]47 German divisions[/u], which represented one quarter of the German forces faced by the Allied Powers fighting on the Western Front.

However, their successes came at a heavy cost; Canadians suffered 20% of their battle-sustained casualties of the war during the same period. The Canadian Corps suffered [i]45,835 casualties[/i] during this offensive.[/quote]

I am certain that 99.999% of Canadians today have no knowledge of the above.

Almost 46,000 casualties in 96 days - an average of almost 500 per day - when
Canada beat better than eleven to one odds.  That's fucking AMAZING.

If any other country had done anything that incredibly heroic and self-sacrificing,
we would still be hearing about it.  Those young farm boys were tough, and they
had no fear of death - day after day after day after day.  Today's pussies cannot
possibly imagine that kind of heroic self-sacrifice.  In O'Connor Township, 32
tough farm boys went off to fight WWI, and only FUCKING TWO returned.  One
was my maternal grandfather.  You would have liked him - he wasn't like me, at
all.  Tough as nails, strong as a bull, never complained about anything, and had
an incredible sense of humor.  Picked up a bail of hay like I pick up a roll of toilet
paper.

That's 30/32 tough farm boys that died for Canada.  Wiped out a generation.

My paternal grandfather and his brother flew for the RFC.  My grandfather came
home, his brother did not.

But of course, this incredible accomplishment and sacrifice is long forgotten, and
my family are scum, the revisionist big-bellied bureaucrats tell me.

Oh Canada.