What a disgrace, Island landlord disallows yellow Ribbon Tribute

I received this e mail  from a reader, during the transition from old web site to this new one. Date is irrelevant and I have deleted the name of the sender, in order to protect them from a landlord with no thought for our troops.

Hi Rob,

It’s  " " " " " " "  here, I have a sad,sad story for you. You can post it or do whatever you want with it.

 Last Monday my wife & I went over to visit Charlene. She gave us a beautiful, large yellow ribbon

that we could put it up. When we got home we put it up out on our deck. I didn’t think our landlord

would be too happy, he won’t even let me fly a flag. He claims to be a patriot, he also claims he

has as much support & concern for our troops as anyone else. Here’s where he showed his true

colors, he sent me an e-mail & told me he noticed a large yellow decoration on our patio. He didn’t

even know what it was, he demanded we take it down. I was not surprised but still furious. My

wife said she would handle it as I can be quite rude when I’m angry.

She told him that it wasn’t a decoration, explained to him what it was, we put it up for Simon & the

rest of the men & women in uniform. The sad part is, he claims to be a pretty intelligent guy, & a

patriot, let’s not forget that. He thought it was some kind of decoration, he had no idea

whatsoever of what it really was & what it stood for. Most grade school kids know what it is. My

concern is that there are too many other Canadians like him out there. It just makes me sick to

think that an adult with some kind of intelligence in our country doesn’t know what a yellow

ribbon is or what it stands for. Shame on him, oh ya, he made us take it down. Sharon is going to

put it up in one of our windows, inside, but so folks can still see it.

 Thanks for listening to my ranting,

The Simonmentioned is a young Island soldier on his first tour of Duty in Afghanistan. SHAME on this landlord.

Our Female RCMP and female police officers from municipal services across Canada are now operatiing a training school for Female Agfghan Police. Good Show Ladies you make me proud to be Canadian.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100726/national/afghan_cda_anp_women

With reference to the upcoming fate of captain Semrau. I for one disagree absolutely with this statement from Gen Thompson:

Brig.-Gen. Denis Thompson says that Semrau's actions were "such a blow" to the credibility of the Canadian Forces that there is "no other option" but to boot him from the military.

Return a Good Soldier to full Duty, return a professional to Duty. If this Captain is stripped of his rank and dishonourably discharged then SHAME on the JURY.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100726/national/semrau_court_martial

Please Show support for our troops our police. corrections and all the NGO's operating in Afghanistan

Nil Sine labore

Robby