ACTION ALERT: TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

[Roy Wilson]

Veterans outraged by people urinating on war memorial
Last Updated: Monday, July 3, 2006 | 10:38 AM ET
CBC News

Veterans groups have renewed calls for more guards or a fence to protect the National War Memorial in Ottawa, after people were photographed urinating on the monument on Canada Day.

A retired Canadian Armed Forces major, Michael Pilon, took photographs after he found several people relieving themselves on the memorial around 11 p.m. on July 1, after a fireworks display came to an end.

The incidents came hours after Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean hosted a huge ceremony at the site, which honours the country's war dead and holds the remains of The Unknown Soldier, returned to Canada from France in 2000.

Pilon said that in 2005, he saw drunken revellers pouring beer on the site.

"It's absolutely disgusting — absolutely disgusting," Bob Butt, the director of communications for the Royal Canadian Legion, told the newspaper.

"The tomb is a sacred place, the area surrounding it is consecrated as a graveyard. It's the same as if you went in and urinated on someone's grave."

Pleas to politicans, police unheeded

Pilon, 63, a retired major with the Royal Canadian Dental Corps, said he has tried on a number of occasions to get local police to guard the memorial but has been told there aren't the resources available to do so.

'It's absolutely disgusting.… It's the same as if you went in and urinated on someone's grave.'-Bob Butt, the director of communications for the Royal Canadian Legion

He said he has also sent e-mails to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, Ottawa Mayor Bob Chiarelli, the National Capital Commission and others, and did not get a response.

"You're not going to be able to control how many drunks there are out there, but keep them away from the area and have a [security] presence," Pilon told the Citizen.

He said he would like to see a small fence and a plaque erected to inform people of the site's significance.

The Royal Canadian Legion has been asking for increased protection through the RCMP, police and politicians — also to no avail.

A spokeswoman for the RCMP said the force works with local authorities to patrol the Canada Day weekend parties and festivities, but pointed out that officers can not be everywhere.

What are we going to do to ensure that this sacred memorial is properly guarded?
Lets do something to correct this idiocy in Canada.

Lets stay on topic and stay focused one time.

[kenan]

Letter and emails to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of National Defence as well the PMO and your local MPs...how's that for starters?

Letters to the editor as well!

[styky]

Get out your writing instruments and here's a site that will help you decide how to write it efectively. http://dawn.thot.net/advocacy_toolkit.html


Don't bother with form letters that you just sign your name to that all say the same thing. THey throw those away. THey want to know what you really think.

I think that we should all form a and stand along side our veterans.

[styky]

Send a letter demanding a guard presence and your displeasure at the disgraceful behavior to all MPs

You can find their contact information <a href=http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E>here</a>

[styky]

Send a letter demanding a guard presence and your displeasure at the disgraceful behavior to all MPs

You can find their contact information <a href=http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E>here</a>

I might add that many of the MPs at the contact info above have their own websites and you can click on contact at their site and say your piece. That way they will have the beginnings of a landslide of contacts on this disgrace today.

[EdS]

I know Maj. Mike Pilon (VE3BUP) very well; he's a fellow Ham operator, and a good dentist!

[Splendor Sine Occasu]

I'm sure they could get a few warm bodies from the Governor General's Foot Guards and Canadian Grenadier Guards to provide a Guard of Honour for the Cenotaph and the Tomb.

http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/LF/English/3_3_2_1.asp

[Smaug]

Send a letter demanding a guard presence and your displeasure at the disgraceful behavior to all MPs

You can find their contact information <a href=http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E>here</a>

Gaurds are okay, but I think we can do better than that. We could, for instance, put electrical fence wires around the monument (in a decorative fashion or non visable manner of course) . As you know, electricity follows water back to its source.

An electrified mounument would guard itself against this kind of desecration as pissing on a source of electricity will bring its own instant punishment.

[Roy Wilson]

Do something.. Never let this hapen again

[styky]

So far I have contacted 12 MPs at their web sites.

[Coffee]

I'm sure they could get a few warm bodies from the Governor General's Foot Guards and Canadian Grenadier Guards to provide a Guard of Honour for the Cenotaph and the Tomb.

http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/LF/English/3_3_2_1.asp

That sounds right to me. Day and night. It also shows respect for the fallen by those still on watch. Very apropriate.

[Smaug]

Dear Mr. Goldring.


As I am sure your aware, our National War Memorial in Ottawa suffered a gross indignity on Dominion Day. Thus I am writing to request that you either support a government bill or promulgate a private memebers bill to appropriate members from the Governor General's Foot Guards and/or Canadian Grenadier Guards to permanent emplacement at the War Memorial to insure that this type of indecency cannot be repeated.


Sincerely

Thats what I sent to my Mp ..... with thanks to Styky and Splendor Sine Ocasu for inspiring the letter and content.

[Roy Wilson]

Dear Mr. Goldring.


As I am sure your aware, our National War Memorial in Ottawa suffered a gross indignity on Dominion Day. Thus I am writing to request that you either support a government bill or promulgate a private memebers bill to appropriate members from the Governor General's Foot Guards and/or Canadian Grenadier Guards to permanent emplacement at the War Memorial to insure that this type of indecency cannot be repeated.


Sincerely

Thats what I sent to my Mp ..... with thanks to Styky and Splendor Sine Ocasu for inspiring the letter and content.

Will set a meeting up with my MP Del
lMastro tomorrow. I want a face to face on this.

[styky]

Don't forget letters to the editor

I would like to see the papers inundated with letters.

[Roy Wilson]

Don't forget letters to the editor

I would like to see the papers inundated with letters.

Working on it