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6- The Oakville Beaver, Friday November 9, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com OPINION & LETTERS The Oakville Beaver 467 Speers Rd., Oakville Ont. L6K 3S4 (905) 845-3824 Fax: 337-5567 Classified Advertising: 845-3824, ext. 224 Circulation: 845-9742 Editorial and advertising content of the Oakville Beaver is protected by copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. THE OAKVILLE BEAVER IS PROUD OFFICIAL MEDIA SPONSOR FOR: The Oakville Beaver is a division of IAN OLIVER Group Publisher Media Group Ltd. NEIL OLIVER Publisher JILL DAVIS Editor in Chief ROD JERRED Managing Editor DANIEL BAIRD Advertising Director RIZIERO VERTOLLI Photography Director SANDY PARE Business Manager MARK DILLS Director of Production MANUEL GARCIA Production Manager CHARLENE HALL Director of Distribution ALEXANDRIA CALHOUN Circ. Manager Lest we forget Today and throughout this weekend there will be numerous ceremonies and services held in Halton to mark Remembrance Day. It is the one time of the year we truly make a conscious effort to pay tribute to the brave men and women who have fought for our freedom in wars both past and present. Let us not forget the men and women in Afghanistan and other hot spots around the world. Observing a moment's silence, attending a Remembrance Day service or buying a poppy are all respectful ways to thank our veterans. However, in the grand scheme of things, these tributes pale when compared to the great sacrifices our fighting and peacekeeping forces have made over the decades. We are forever in their debt. One unique way to commemorate the sacrifice of Canadian Second World War veterans is to purchase a "brick", at the Juno Beach Centre in France. For $250, an engraved plaque will be placed in the kiosk wall at the site. The veterans' bricks will include the person's rank, name, decorations, unit, dates of service, as well as a comment regarding the veteran's service, such as Italian Campaign, Battle of the Atlantic or D-Day Veteran. The man behind the Juno Beach Centre as well as the Halton Juno Beach Memorial Brick campaign is Burlington D-Day Veteran Garth Webb. The bricks will include the donor's name, other descriptive information, town and province of residence. A directory inside will assist visitors in finding specific bricks on the various kiosks. Donations can be made payable to: Juno Beach Centre, 2407 Woodward Ave. -- Unit 24, Burlington, ON L7R 4J2. For an additional $25, an authentic replica wooden brick with the Juno Beach logo will be sent to the donor recognizing the purchase of the "brick" that will be installed at the centre. The replica wooden brick is only available to those purchasing a brick. We will never truly be able to thank our veterans for the freedoms they provided to us and future generations, but buying a brick simply provides us with another way to show them how grateful we are and that we, too, will never forget. The Oakville Beaver welcomes letters from its readers. Letters will be edited for clarity, length, legal considerations and grammar. In order to be published all letters must contain the name, address and phone number of the author. Letters should be addressed to The Editor, Oakville Beaver, 467 Speers Rd., Oakville, ON, L6K 3S4, or via e-mail to editor@oakvillebeaver.com. The Beaver reserves the right to refuse to publish a letter. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In the past week the Beaver has featured front-page stories that prominently reference bombing by so-called insurgents in Afghanistan. Such uncritical, one-sided reporting is typical of Western media service as part of the war propaganda machine. When American aggressors invaded Afghanistan in 2001 their aerial attacks targeted key roads and the highest density areas of the country killing thousands of civilians within a few months. According to the UN as many as 70 per cent of the Off-load delay problem is a time bomb waiting to explode: Halton paramedic population in three major Afghan cities were displaced by these foreign attacks. Many civilian facilities were targeted and cluster bombs were dropped by the invading US air force to wreak immediate carnage or to remain on the ground as unexploded devices. Canada, a global leader in efforts to ban landmines, is mute about the use of cluster munitions in Afghanistan, Iraq or Lebanon but the media constantly refer to the use of IEDs by the resistance to the occupying forces and their puppet governments. Civilians are also killed indirectly, when air strikes cut off their access to hospitals, food or electricity. During the past year NATO air strikes have intensified, including attacks on civilian areas in violation of international law. Even when President Karzai of Afghanistan weeps and begs his foreign masters to try to stop bombing and killing civilians nobody in the West heeds his request. When NATO ground forces open fire on civilians in the streets we hear little. The "impartial" media needs to tell the full story and to ask a few more questions about what's really going on in Afghanistan and why, six years after the initial invasion, our government only offers slogans as to why we are there contributing to this seemingly endless war of destruction. BRIAN HOPKINS Pud BY STEVE NEASE snease@haltonsearch.com CAS story was a mistake I must say that I agree completely with Mary Lohr's and Maureen Novak's letters to the editor (Oct. 31) concerning the CAS files that were left behind. I think you made a serious error in judgement by sending a reporter to the home where the files were found to read those files. This should not have been front page news. It should have been a phone call to the CAS and all parties involved should have shown some discretion. MARGARET KIRWIN The Oakville Beaver is a member of the Ontario Press Council.The council is located at 80 Gould St., Suite 206,Toronto, Ont., M5B 2M7. Phone 416-340-1981. Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of a typographical error, that portion of advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate. The publisher reserves the right to categorize advertisements or decline.