In the National Post I remember as always those who gave all their tomorrows for my today, and try to treat it as the precious gift that it is.
“What we learn from history is Churchill’s motto: ‘Never, never, never ever, give in.’”
Allan Fotheringham in Maclean’s June 23, 1997
On The News Forum with Tanya Granic Allen I discussed why we remember on November 11 and what we should remember. (You can also watch it on Facebook here.)
“The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.”
Eli Wiesel Night
“Unconditional surrender of our enemies [is] the signal for the greatest outburst of joy in the history of mankind. Holiday rejoicing is necessary to the human spirit.”
“Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in his May 8 Victory in Europe day broadcast” quoted by Ted Barris in National Post May 6, 2005
In my latest National Post column, part of the paper’s “Serious Canada” series, I list the things a nation serious about its finances would do, and warn of the consequences if we don’t.
“Watching [Nick] Faldo and [Curtis] Strange is like watching two glaciers at work.”
TV announcer re the Ryder Cup on Sunday July 24, 1995, 17th hole