My mother was a Canadian who emigrated here early in the World
War II
Her two brothers served in Canada’s army and they fought the
Germans and staying alive made it through
All three of them proud to be Canadian would be rolling in
their graves
Two uncles who fought the Germans and a nurse who a naval
hospital fought to patients save
That a member of the Waffen SS whose fellow members in France killed Canadian prisoners
who had surrendered
And in the East butchered Jews so frequently that today their war crimes are
still remembered
The 1st Galician Division was raised to fight the
Soviets who before the war had starved millions of Ukrainians to death
Though formed as an SS Division it should
not be compared to other SS Divisions guilty of war crimes in the same breath
Know not Yaroslav Hunka’s war record or that of his division
on the Eastern Front against the Russian Bear
Only know he was vetted extensively before being allowed to
in Canada immigrate there.
Before Jewish organizations lump the 1st Galician
Division with the atrocities of other divisions of the SS
It would do well to remember at Bitburg Reagan’s honoring those
buried there including the SS in his address.
© 9/24/2023 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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