{"id":1281,"date":"2019-01-20T22:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T22:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2019-02-17T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:58:11","slug":"it-was-the-bankers-who-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"It was the bankers who won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by\u00a0Eric Unger<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HAVE YOU watched the movie, <em>Hacksaw Ridge<\/em>? It&#8217;s worth a look, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Having viewed this film about an American WWII conscientious objector I wondered if Canada had had a similar soldier who refused to kill yet served in war. Then while in the doctor&#8217;s waiting room the other day I came upon this short article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readersdigest.ca\/culture\/alphonse-pelletier-korean-war-hero\/\" target=\"_blank\">here in Reader\u2019s Digest<\/a> about a Korean War veteran and CO.<\/p>\n<p>This excerpt from the story really caught my eye:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After Pelletier was honourably discharged on August 13, 1953&#8230; He married Rosaline in the spring of 1964 and they settled in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and had four children: three sons and a daughter. When the kids were young, Pelletier brought them to Remembrance Day ceremonies and gave them mock parachute lessons in the basement, but he told them very little about the war. This dismayed their second oldest, Louis-Marie, who, as a child, was anxious for details of his father\u2019s courageous exploits in Korea. One day, in a bid to find out more, he asked his dad which side had been victorious. \u201cWe wanted so much for him to tell us it was him\u2014that he had won the war,\u201d says Louis-Marie, laughing. \u201cBut <strong>he told us it was the bankers who\u2019d really won<\/strong>. [emphasis mine] What a boring answer! Still, he wasn\u2019t wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Eric Unger HAVE YOU watched the movie, Hacksaw Ridge? It&#8217;s worth a look, I think. Having viewed this film about an American WWII conscientious objector I wondered if Canada had had a similar soldier who refused to kill yet served in war. Then while in the doctor&#8217;s waiting room the other day I came upon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promote-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}