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War machine parade
Submitted by Toban B on June 4, 2006 - 5:24pm.
downtown London - beside Victoria park
June 4 - shortly before noon
Anyone know anything about why these war vehicles were driving around?
There were bagpipe players, and I believe there were some war vets. I got the impression that the event (which drew a large crowd) was -- at least in part -- a memorial for soldiers (perhaps WW2 soldiers).
The parade of war machines seemed to be glorifying combat.
The vehicles weren't moving when I took this picture, but they had previously come from Richmond (which they had only been on momentarily). I saw the vehicles driving beside Victoria Park on Central and on Wellington.
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London F Press coverage
The London F Press covered the June 4 memorial event on their front page:
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonPDF/20060605.pdf
For anyone who doesn't want to load that PDF, here is the material:
Old school armoured vehicles
Those are world-war two vintage armoured vehicles -- the front is a Sherman tank, followed by two "Bren Gun Carriers" -- a sort of primitive APC that worked on the theory that machineguns are heavy and steel is expensive, so you don't need to put a protective top on -- (lots of soliders of the period died when a hand grenade got tossed in). There's a bunch of vintage jeeps behind them.
It's definitely a WWII memorial of some kind -- none of that stuff was used long after the war, since the Cold War "required" a massive upgrade of the west's military might.
I suspect that it has something to do with the anniversary of D-Day, since that's today, June 6.
D-Day anaversary
D-Day anniversary
It's part of the commemoration for the invasion of Normandy in WWII (One of the Local regiments played a major role in D-Day, and within the regiment the anniversary each year is known as Warrior's Day). Politics aside, that's what it is.
As for glorifying combat., I don't think this (or violence for that matter) is that black and white... Try thinking of it this way: Warrior's Day is to D-Day as May Day is to the Haymarket Riot.
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