KEEP MESSAGE ALIVE Current world conflicts help us to remember Dear Editor: In Canada, our focus on Remembrance Day has been around a special tribute to Canadian veterans of the major World Wars. And so it should be. But as Valerie Campbell pointed out (North Shore News, Nov. 10), to many Canadians these events are buried in history books, and will be more so in the future. Her solution was to reflect on freedom and the good things made possible by the sacrifice of so many young people in the past. This too is good, but perhaps does not go far enough. To sharpen our focus on our abhorrence of war and in realization that we now live in a Global Village, our Remembrance Day services could also reflect on the brutality of wars which presently ravage the lives of our fellow citizens of the Planet Earth in places such as El Salvador, Lebanon aad Ethiopia. These are real wars affecting real people. We can hear the stories of today’s pain, bereave- ment and shattered dreams directly from Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees in Greater Vancouver. We can also witness their amazing hope for the future, and the intensity in which they work to end these wars. We can ‘ears; about and undersiand the power structures which create these wars, and join one of many group: oi the North Shore which work to de- nounce and change structures whereby one group of people uses its power to dominate and exploit another group weaker than itself. We will discover that these structures of dominance and exploitation exist in our own country as well, perhars in very subtle forms, and we can take up the torch to combat them. By focusing our minds and energies in the struggle for sclutions to today’s conflicts, we will also gain a far better appreciation of the sacrifices of young Ca- nadians in former years. 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