Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

When we were kids, back in the early sixties, we had to learn "In Flanders Fields". I think all Canadian kids did back then. In a recent survey, they found that 80% of all Canadian kids could still correctly identify that iconic poem. I'm glad.
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@nicholaschristophorou3087 How to dehumanise generations of people that lived in those times. "Real humans"....Wow. Those "free" hunter/gatherers lived a life where they were in constant contact with the animals they painted. They hunted them, and them carried them back to camp where they skinned, eviscerated and dressed them. Of course they knew what those animals looked like. Lions hadn't lived in Europe for thousands of years if indeed that's what it was. The witnesses only had a few minutes to see and describe it and like the narrator said, most people would have been familiar, through pictures, of the long maned male lions and not even realised that females didn't have that mane. You're so wrapped up in hate, you can't even make a comment about an anomalie of those times without bringing your own twisted vision of human history.
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@raystory7059 Empty weight of a B-25 bomber is about 10 tons. The empty weight of a 737 is about 45 tons. The bomber was flying slowly, around 200 mph, because of the fog and he didn't want to hit anything. The planes on 9/11 were travelling twice as fast and wanted to hit those buildings as hard as they could. The Empire State Building had a different basic support structure and facade than the Twin Towers. These factors could easily account for the differences in the final result. Do you know what other buildings weren't hit by planes on 9/11? WTC3, 4, 5 and 6, yet these buildings were also demolished that day. Do you know why? Tens of thousands of tons of debris crashing into them from the falling towers. Building 7 also suffered massive damage from thousands of tons of debris. Check out this picture of the damage at one corner of WTC7. http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/images/articles/911-images/wtc7-side-damage1.jpg A huge cut, into the bottom of the building, 10 stories high, that's 1/3 of the height, and 1/4 of the way into the building......GONE. I'll bet money that you wouldn't live or work in that building if it didn't fall. Do you know why? You'd be afraid that it wasn't structurally safe or secure and you'd be correct. Only a fool would have taken residence there. It was only a matter of time before it did fall. How do I know that it was hit by debris from the falling North Tower? Video of the collapse shows it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEgPNNcdtu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSq663m0G8 Watch these videos. They show how much debris hit building 7 and how it didn't need to be hit by a plane to be structurally compromised. Listen to this fireman talking about the burning building 7 BEFORE the collapse and how it was leaning and there was nothing they could do to stop it from collapsing. He even said that this was because they couldn't put the fires out and the flames added to the structural damage of the building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kSq663m0G8 You're making a superficial argument with no real evidence except for your incredulity. "You can't tell me" isn't evidence. It's a defence for a statement of conjecture and that's all you've done.
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@mudgebauer I don't know who you hang out with but I most folk I know use toilet paper. I worked as a winder, making toilet paper, for almost 10 years, until I retired 3 years ago. Everybody I knew, and I mean EVERYBODY I knew, asked if I could get them a case. Lots of people were fired for stealing cases and selling them to neighbours and friends. I've worked in a lot of factories but that place was the worst place I worked at for pilfering products, even though we were allowed to take a case of seconds once a month. The demand is still extremely high and I don't see baby wipes taking out the market anytime soon.
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@55fixcom Oh stop it. 3000 architects and engineers.....pfffftt. There are millions of architects and engineers in the world. Read their member's list. Some of the engineers have nothing to do with building structures. Computer, electrical and civic engineers. What would they know about the structural integrity of high rise buildings? I could build you a house and have done so for others, in the past. I wouldn't even know where to begin to build a building as big as the WTC. You're the one that said "View every signatory". View their area of expertise. Not as impressive as you'd like it to be. It's an appeal to authority and that's a logical fallacy. In fact, the Empire State Building refutes one of the main arguments against the inside job conjecture. The hole left by that plane was only 18 by 22 in size, yet the plane was over 100 feet across from wing tip to wing tip. Truthers say that there's no way a huge plane could leave a small hole in the Pentagon the way that it did, yet it happened in 1945 and this video verifies it. Precedence invalidates that contention.
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@annteve My parents came from the Netherlands after the war. We feel the significance of the Canadian war effort a little more directly than the people of Ukraine would. Canadian soldiers stayed in my grandfather's farm and used it as a base to look for pockets of German soldiers. Many people of the Ukraine have their own reasons for remembering the fallen soldiers of that war. It was a terrible time in history. It's good to hear that those Remembrance services helped to form your identity as a Canadian. What's sad is that Don Cherry wants new immigrants to learn the history that we both honour and he was fired for it. It's sad that there are people in this country don't feel the same way that you and I do. A country without a history can't be a nation. It becomes a region of disparate people, without a feeling of a bond or unity. It becomes a source of division. What's amazing is that 2 people, from such different backgrounds, Ukraine and the Netherlands can come to this country and become as one people. That's what this poem means to me and I'm feeling that you believe the same.
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@radarplotextractor3168 Is that right? My dad grew up in Assen, about 15 kilometres from the the border of the province of Groningen. The Capital city of Groningen is also called Groningen and is a little over 20 kilometres north of where my dad grew up. Canadian soldiers stayed in my grandfather's barn for about a week, using it as a base as they cleaned out German pockets. After that they headed north, towards Groningen. One of the soldiers that stayed in the barn was from North Bay, Ontario, or at least he lived there in the sixties. My dad looked him up and they visited one another back in the sixties. I believe that the man's name was Kennedy. I should ask my dad. He's 89 and in good health. He was 13 when the war ended. He told me that the reason that he came to Canada was that the kids his age looked up to those Canadian soldiers like kids look up to hockey players in Canada. He made up his mind, at 13, that he was going to live in Canada. He saved every penny that he could and came when he was 19. My mom came a couple of months later. She was pregnant with me at the time.
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@radarplotextractor3168 I guess it's the story of Canada and how we grew as a nation. A story that so many Canadians can tell from their own family history. Your comments are much appreciated.
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@oldgundog4705 She must have been a wonderful person and teacher. It's hard to imagine a California teacher who would ask her students to memorise "In Flanders Fields", today. I hope that they're still out there.
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Mary Smith The modern SJW believes that they have already revived Victorian virtue. Say the wrong thing and they clutch their pearls and faint away. LOL.
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@carloaldo5130 I was there in 2018 and you weren't allowed to climb it. It would have been nice to do it but I can understand why it's not allowed. Quite a fascinating place and our guide really knew his stuff. One thing that I found really fascinating was that you could stand at the bottom of the pyramid, clap your hands and the echo would follow with a bird call. It would do it every time. It's amazing that they figured out the acoustics to allow that echo to end in a bird call.
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Justin Saying that it's conjecture means I'm trying to be smarter than the next guy? Ok. I'll try to dumb it down for you. He's making it up and it's BS. I'm not even sure what the point of your comment is? Do you disagree with the points that I've made or does the way I present the points bother you?
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I've read countless books on the Soviet Union, Lenin, Stalin, the purges, the Gulags, the famines and the war and I've never encountered anything on the Night Witches. A truly astonishing story.
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