Dear Editor:
Please put your money where your heart is and support the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and their Ukraine Humanitarian Fund. It’s easy and quick to do, and so necessary. Instead of complaining alone, or just worrying because today it’s today’s issue, do something.
What would you do if your 18-year-old son was recruited today into a fighting force against an evil vicious aggressor. The embassy of the Russian Federation is at 285 Charlotte Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 8L5. Consular General of the Russian Federation 17 Bloor St.E. South Tower, Suite 801, Toronto, ON, M4W 3R8.
Put a Ukrainian blue/yellow flag on your Facebook page, in your window and on your lapel. Tie a yellow (andblue) ribbon round your old oak tree, tie them to your car aerial, get some blue/yellow balloons at Looney Tooney, etc. Talk to your kids. Support your Canadian ethnic Ukrainian friends and neighbours, and listen. Approach your Canadian ethnic Russian friends, and listen to their concerns. Don’t judge them.
But, to quote the Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kylsyltsya regarding President Vladamir Putin, “There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell.”
If you pray, get at it. If you don’t, catch up. It’s not all about you and your ever expanding never satisfying list of today’s made-up rights or your tribe of the day. It’s about us, not against the them. If you are one of those that uses the phrase “We are all in this together,” then be the tolerant person you state you are and follow your motto. We is not you.
Ask a person who survived a holocaust, or East Germany or the hell-hole that was Soviet Europe. Abandon Twitter’s curse of division. Communism, socialism, Marxism and progressivism and that sorry lot will always promise to serve and satisfy, while always in the end, only desire to destroy and dominate, even its own proponents much to their shock. Always.
We are all broken, and if you think you are better than the others you are mistaken. Do something, while you are still allowed.
Protesting at your high school about an issue is not bravery. Bravery must be earned, not given by opinion. People who fight with their bare hands for their very lives are heroes with true courage, and deserve all our support. We have it so well, and we are so ungrateful. It’s about all of us.
David Hawkins,
Wellington North