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Washburn said it is difficult for
those who are not veterans to compre
hend the meaning of Veterans Day.
“Many soldiers don’t see it as a sac
rifice, they see it as their job,” Wash
bum said. “You don’t realize what life
fear is until you go oversees. ”
Kramer, who has been in the Army
for more than 20 years, said he hopes
the community recognizes the impor
tance of Veterans Day.
“ (For community members) hope
fully it means a day in remembrance of
those who have served their country,”
Kramer said. He said for him it is a day
of honor for the soldiers, airmen and
everyone else who has served.
Washburn said that he didn’t under
stand until now why his dad, a Viet
nam War veteran, didn’t often speak of
his experience.
“I’ve lost three or four buddies since
the war started,” Washburn said.
“Now I know why he didn’t talk about
it much.”
While in Iraq, Washburn spent a lot
of time doing patrols and maintaining
peace and order.
“We were on the front line, and hot,
cold, hungry Joes working eight to 10
hours under the wire,” Washburn said.
He said the accommodations
were difficult because the soldiers
had to build their own showers, had
access to a phone that could only be
used every four days and didn’t
have air conditioning.
“I didn’t expect it to be so hot; the
sun is so bright,” Washburn said. “It’s
much brighter and the temperature is
hotter, so the climate was unexpected.”
Washburn had some close calls
while in Iraq; he said that the mor
tar attacks provided some of the
scariest experiences.
“You hear a boom and 25 seconds
later you hope it doesn’t land on you,”
Washburn said.
On the other hand, Washburn said
there was a lot of camaraderie while he
was in Iraq and that the locals really
appreciated having the soldiers there.
“A lot of people will shake your
hand, and they’re so thankful that
you’re saving them from that totalitari
an regime,” Washburn said. “ Eighty -
five percent love you and the other 15
percent want to kill you, and you don’t
know who is who.”
Washburn emphasized his dissatis
faction with the media’s coverage of
the war. He said that four out of five ar
ticles are negative, and if things were
being portrayed accurately only one
out of five would be negative.
“We’ll walk by farms that have fer
tilizer and rice that have been dropped
off by our military for them to use,”
Washburn said. “We’re also trying to
restore water treatment plants. The
media only sees oil, but we’re trying to
improve their water too.”
Washburn said his decision to
join the armed forces was driven by
family tradition.
“Every generation of my family has
served in a war; it’s a fifth-generation
military tradition,” Washburn said.
Since returning from Iraq just in
time to spent the Easter holiday with
his family, Washburn has been able to
continue his studies at the University.
He is an economics major and will
graduate in the spring. He will remain
a member of the National Guard until
early 2006, and his future goals include
transferring to active duty in the Army.
“Eventually I might like to be an of
ficer, but that’s a ways away,” Wash
bum said.
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in moving to Canada is “absolutely
huge.” Kischer said many of his
clients are professionals in their late
30s, although some people with
teenage sons are also interested be
cause of worries about the reinstate
ment of a military draft.
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“It’s definitely a mix,” he said.
Kischer added that many college
students are probably not eligible to
apply for skilled-worker status im
mediately after college because
of the one-year work experience
requirement.
Kischer plans to hold seminars in
Seattle, San Francisco and Los Ange
les to brief people on Canadian immi
gration because of intense interest in
the subject, according to a Nov. 10 ar
ticle by the Canadian Press.
While Americans may not be im
mediately flocking across the border,
they are visiting Canada’s main im
migration Web site in record num
bers, with the site receiving a six-fold
increase in U.S. hits the day after the
election, according to a Nov. 5 article
by Reuters. The Web site,
www.cic.gc.ca, usually receives
about 20,000 visits from U.S. citizens
a day, but traffic jumped to 115,016
U.S. visitors on Nov. 3, according to
the report. U.S. visits dropped to
65,803 on Nov. 4.
Last year, Canada accepted 5,990
immigrants from the United States,
which ranked sixth in total immi
grants after the Philippines, with
11,978, and Pakistan, with 12,330.
The U.S. consulate in Toronto esti
mates that 1 million Americans may
already be living in Canada — many
of whom aren’t registered — accord
ing to a Nov. 3 article by The Associ
ated Press.
This isn’t the first time Americans
have looked to Canada for refuge.
Some 125,000 Americans opposed to
the draft and the Vietnam War fled to
Canada between 1964 and 1977, ac
cording to a Sept. 8 report by the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Many of the “draft dodgers” returned
after President Jimmy Carter offered
amnesty in 1977, but the 1986 census
showed that about half stayed in
Canada, according to the report. Ac
tivists in Nelson, British Columbia
are planning to erect a bronze sculp
ture, to be unveiled in 2006, honoring
those who came to Canada and resis
ted the Vietnam War.
As grave as would-be immigrants’
concerns may be, not everyone is tak
ing the situation seriously. The provi
sion in Canada’s immigration code
that hastens the citizenship process
for people who marry Canadians
prompted the publisher of a Toronto
magazine to create www.mar
ryanamerican.ca, a satirical Web site
dedicated to matching “Canadian
singles, tired of the dating scene”
with a “sexy American liberal.”
“Open your heart, and your home.
Marry an American,” the site im
plores. “Legions of Canadians have
already pledged to sacrifice their sin
glehood to save our southern neigh
bours from four more years of cow
boy conservatism.”
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