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BurlingtonToday received the following letter to the editor.
At 74 years of age I now look back with warm fond memories of being a boy growing up in Burlington in the early 50’s. An era when the new model homes were being built along Burbank near The Pig And Whistle and steam rollers rolled over the cherry orchards across the road from where the wild crab apples grew beyond Billy Bests farm as the new churches school was raised up across town.
It is time now for me to lay down my body’s weary load and rest. I’ve been to the mountains, I’ve sailed the seas. I was sent to fight or die in Vietnam, I’ve witnessed the civil unrest during several riots in Los Angeles. I’ve travelled America’s historic mother Road, Route 66 more times than I can recall to even count rather than fly in order to be closer to the heartland.
I’ve travelled Canada’s breathtaking trans Continental highway from west to east, and absorbed its spectacle of nature’s grandeur.
And because of the election here in America whose standard bearer that I so instinctively disagree with and cannot abide by nor approve of on so many levels, that I attribute to my upbringing to in Burlington?
I thought, I really could and even should go back home now?
Here in The United States, the morning news reports that The Canadian Prime Minister has flown to Florida to meet with the man who would be ‘Dictator For A Day’ and round up 12 million undocumented men women and separate them from their children (again) starting on day one?
A man who was found guilty by a jury of his peers of 34 felonies for a decades long pattern of alleged tax cheating and questionable dubious creative bookkeeping gymnastics that includes serial bankruptcy filings under US law that favoured him and wiped out everyone else. A state of affairs that put his own bookkeeper in prison like even his own lawyer was.
A man who once remarked, “what good are nuclear weapons if you can’t use them?”. Who now holds audience as world leaders sojourn to his heavily-guarded Florida compound in the blacked-out windowed armoured vehicles motorcades to offer their congratulations as he plots his next move to visit the economic miseries on everyone with threats of crushing tariffs as the official statement of even China admonishes that “no one wins in a trade war”?
And so, Dear Editor, I am given pause equivalent to a cold sop of a frosty Burlington morning when the historic snow drifts of the previous nights artic blast of ‘55 inundated the windward side of my parent's home as I ask myself? Can we ever really go back home after all?
Sadly I just don't believe it?
Stewart Resmer
Burlington
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