so many american soliders gone a wall to canada?
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Canada has always been a safe haven for Americans running from wars. half of my high school teachers in were draft dodgers running from the Vietnam war, there is even a book about an American hiding in Nova Scotia evading fighting during ww2. bookhttp://www.pottersfieldpress.com/books/hermitgully.html \n\nyes there is a lot of Americans up here(if it is not on the ABC news Americans won't believe it), it nice that they feel safe here and yes we should let them stay.\n\nhey buddy  at the bottom, Canada has never, or never will need American solders, we don't start shi$ we can't finish.
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More than one million, all volunteers.  There was no conscription.  45,000 Canadians died in WW2, and 55,000 were wounded.
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I had people from other countries prodly fight beside me.  They weren't even citizens yet.  But they explained how things were where they came from and had some of the best understanding of what it means to be American I have seen.  They are proud Marines that will give their life to give others freedom.  \n\nPeople here are putting them in the ranks of cannon fodder.  I know a non-citizen Marine that is a far better human than most of the people on this site. \n\nI am proud to have them fight beside me because to many Americans have become little punks hanging on to their mothers appron.  \n\nI would rather them join the military to get in to the country than sneak accross the wide open border and never learn what our freedoms cost us.
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Last time it didn't go so well..\n\n\nThere is the problem that Canada is still a part of the commonwealth which means that you would not only be contending with Canada, but the military forces of all the commonwealth members.  \n\nYou would also need to bring back a serious draft before doing it.   Let's face it the first thing Canada will do to defend it's boarders is conscription.     So is it really worth it,  the cost of actually invading it  and the potential of it not going well are quite great.
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I live here in America and have been an American all my life. If they were willing to flee to Canada just because of a certain president being elected then I wonder about their loyalty to America and whether they are true Americans or people who live in America and only like it when things go their way. I would call that a fair weather American. Wouldn't you? Sure hope they don't join the military or run for a government position themselves. I 'd hate for them to turn tail and run just because things were  not going there way. Right ?
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ooh that is a scary thought, bad enough living above them. makes me wonder though:\nif we did join with the usa, would Americans be able to find us on a map then?\ndo Americans think that as soon as they joined Canada, the states would suddenly turn colder?\nwould Canadians have to start hating minorities?\nwould Americans think that Canadians would want to replace there igloos with wooden houses?\nwould Canadians have to drill holes in our head and suck out half our brains?\nwould Americans have to finish high school and stop sleeping with their cousins?\nthere is just too much to think about!!
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Canada should build a wall. That'll learn em!
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LOL! some people are just plain morons! As  I was scrolling down reading every ones opinion-answer, I notice a few "Americans" are going to either "A" leave the U.S or  "B" move to Canada...Does anyone else see what is wrong with this?? Let me explain....those that said you will be leaving the U.S.A for for Canada or another Country...correct me if wrong but wont you then become the one thing you "hate" yes that's right. You will all become Immigrants in a foreign land. I find that to be Ironic. Next time you may want to think before you answer..............
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About 55,000, whose names are on the VietNam memorial wall in Washington, D.C., where many American VietNam veterans and family go to mourn their friends, fathers, etc. Many many more made it home, but have had serious physical, mental, and financial problems, partly due to Americans non-support for the war (which fortunately changed over the years, at least for the vets), as well as the unescapable fact that War is Hell on earth, regardless, and that was one of the worst.
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Not at the current time, however come then end of 2006  you will need one it you travel via air or sea to Canada or Mexico.  The end of 2007 all ways of travel into Canada and Mexico you will need one.  Check site below!   It would be better for you to have one any way to cross, less hassle.  As one poster stated, its easy to cross over into Canada, but coming back across to America, its harder for an American to regain entry then one from another country trying to get in.   The custom people here in the states will allow terrorist, murderers, etc to come into the USA, but give a true American citizen a hard time.   Retire military get treated like crap, I know I was drilled when I came back from a visit to friends in Canada.  Spend the money now on a passport, use it both crossing over to Canada and especially coming back to the United States.
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Got this e-mail today.  This is a good read - funny how it took someone in England to put it into words...\n\nSunday Telegraph Article\nFrom today's UK wires: Salute to a brave and modest nation\nKevin Myers, The Sunday Telegraph\n\n    LONDON - Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a U.S. warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region.  And as always, Canada will now bury its dead, just as the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.\n\n    It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries.  But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.\n \n    That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an  address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.\n \n    Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.\n \n    Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the "British." \n\n     The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and  the fourth-largest air force in the world.\n\n    The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of ourse, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.\n\n    So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.\n\n    Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1
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Politicians will have to revisit the draft and unfortunately if our military commitments remain as high as they are one may be needed. Politically it won't happen before the election. The Republicans are already going to lose the Senate. They don't want to also lose the house.\n\nI believe many in the Military went in for the education, never thinking that they would serve three tours in Iraq. Recruitment may be up but only because the standards to get in were lowered. If we keep sending body bags home at the rate we are (47 in from May 1-14) and the regulars are pulling multiple tours, the enlistment rates will continue to slide.\n\nAdditionally, more people are seeing Iraq as a bogus war and will not enlist. In Vietnam many who were killed were drafted, and I know from personal experience, if it weren't for the draft they would not have been there. Many fled to Canada.\n\nBush is now sending the National Guard to enforce our borders so they will no longer be an option. Early in Iraq almost 1/2 of the military were National Guard.\n\nWe have closed as many bases as we dare, pulled as many troops as we thoght we could out of Japan, Germany and Korea.\n\nAnd the government has kept thousands of military past ther ETS date or the date they are suppose to be discharged.\n\nWith that scenerio, where are you going to get the bodies if not from a draft?
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I'm a Canadian, so obviously my views on American society aren't internal. I have the 'benefit' of being on the fence. A little inside, a little outside. The way a lot of my peers see the state of the American society is one of drastic class structures. A society that you could possibly have as many material goods as you desire, but may lose your soul along the way. A country where New Orleans could have been evacuated earlier, but wasn't. A place where innocent people are killed in gun violence regularily (here in Toronto, just over 50 people were killed last YEAR, and that was all you read about for weeks. How many people are killed on average with guns in many American cities?)\n\nUnfortunately or not, I don't think the rest of the world sees America the way Americans see it. The average American has come to be portrayed as ignorant and brutish. I've crossed the border on many occassions, and people even an hour past the border don't understand a thing about Canada. \n\nOf course, I have also met many extremely wonderful Americans (all in all, they are not too different from Canadians). But it only takes one bad apple to ruin the bunch, and it's that bad apple that has formed the typical American in the rest of the world's eyes.
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Probably the same amount of dumb ass American's who feel they are losig "their" country, what is it with you people? How many more places do you have to go to and ruin before you change yoyur ways, you ran out of Europe, killed the natives and now resent your neighbours entering the US. How about this we will all stay out of the US if you all promise to stay right there and not leave or pllute the rest of us any more
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I think they are people who have fled their countries for a better life here.  I do not think they are the biggest part of this problem.  US companies that seek them out and in some cases help them get into the country are the biggest part of the problem.  Until that is dealt with no ridiculous, under patrolled wall or fence will keep people out.  Congress (both parties) would like for us to focuus on the illegal entrants, on fences and even on beefing up security.  that is dishonest of them.  Do you ever notice how very few Senators and House members are drawing our attention to corporate America's hiring of these people?  Could it be that they don't want to upset the source of their campaign dollars?
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Wrong. \nA lot of them do join the army to become naturalized afterwards.
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62% of Canadian women have married out of Canadian citizenship, harking a sharp exit from the country\n\nYeah!