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Borin wall bea bows
Friday when the government
of Cantda gives merchant
seamen their well deserved
recoguition and dues,

Hindsight tells us that it
was net cneugh tor Canadian
Merchant seamen ta serve
their country ina pme of
war, bar they should have
Jearned ta play the political
game and got themselves a
lobbyist ke the Greek free:
dom fighters who weren't
even under Canadian con
mand during the war but
helped elect a Liberal men:
ber of Partiament and se
received the benefits so
shamefully denied Canadian
merchant seamen.

Cinee acvavernment for
woes its morality it can not
recover It by granting veter-
an’s sta-
tus to
merchant
seamen
after 50
years
hoa
passed.

Where
hoaios
Canada
sense of values go when any
Member of Parliament who,
after six years service in the
comparative safety of
Parliament Hill, along, with
the enjoyment of the prereq-
uisite © entitements thar
accompany such a position, is
turther entitled to an over:
‘inflated pension. when he
cleaves, Ottawa and men like
iMr. Wallen Burnett after six
‘years of dangerous war ser-
vice do net even get his
country's thanks

I went to sea as a young
boy and came through the
war unscathed burt J learned a
for from the rough and ready
men that § sailed with, not
the least of which was be true
to yourself and never surren-
der your integrity.

In 1990, in my hometown
in northeast: England a
memorial was dedicated: for
merchant seamen which
reads:

-“In memory of the thou-
sands of merchant seamen
who sailed fram this port and
Jost their lives in World Wae
Two.

“Unrecognized you put
us in your debt. Unthanked,
you enter or escape the grave
whether vour land remember
or forget. You saved the land
or died to ry to save,”

And that is about all the
thanks that merchant seamen
will ever get as we can not

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