Web-master's note:
The following letter was written by Reg. R Dixon, CD. Maj. Retd and sent to Col. J.W. Holzhauer, CD, Retd, c/o  Friends of the Canadian War Museum with additional copies going to The Editor of various newspapers.   Reg discusses the need for federal funding for the War Museum.  Mr. Dixon's letter is reproduced here only through his kind permission.  Brian Westbrook, Major (Ret'd)

Email: Brian_Westbrook@UManitoba.CA

EDITORS AND OTHERS.
The following is a letter I have written to the War Museum concerning
the need for Federal funds for this National institution. I hope you
can find space to publish it.

12 November, 1999.
Col. J.W. Holzhauer, CD, Retd.
Friends of the Canadian War Museum,
130 Sussex Drive, Ottawa,
Ontario. Canada.
K1A OM8

Dear Colonel,

I have received your letter requesting funds for the National War
Museum, and as much as I feel that our National War Museum is, and should be, an even more important museum than a so called Museum of Civilization, I feel that I cannot subscribe further, nor make a bequest, for the following reasons - and I hope you will bear with me.

I feel deeply about this Canada of ours. I feel deeply that we have
been betrayed, in particular by two men - Trudeau and Chrétien and their appointed deputies. The evidence is so clear that they have used their office of power to twist Canada into serving their own ends - as they both have said at various times - to make Canada a Quebecois state. I need not remind you what happened at the War Museum when Veterans were
turfed out to be replaced by young Quebecois "bilinguals". That has
happened in every Government Department starting back in 1970. Not only that but you may have noticed all "Spokespersons" are now Quebecois, as are most of those in positions of power in the Federal Government. In other words, Canadians have been deceived and manipulated by
two clever and arrogant men and their cabal. There are pages and pages
of examples. Starting with, for example, English Today, French Tomorrow, a book written by a Royal Canadian Naval officer back when we had a Royal Canadian Navy and before it was destroyed by Trudeau. You may remember those days.

This Remembrance Day the public does seem to be waking up after a long
hypnotic trance, but they are not yet fully aware of what the policies of those
two men have resulted in. The state of our armed forces is now a very visible
example, and indicates the size of the rest of the iceberg of their treacherous ideas and actions. Louis Riel and Communist Dr. Bethune are now our national heroes and plenty of money can be found for their icons.

I certainly wish to commend you upon your efforts for the War Museum,
but I think now, instead of directing your appeal (Even having to appeal for such a National Museum is degrading, and crawling to those two creatures - I would rather die first!) The aim now should be a sustained media attack upon the Chrétien Government and his cabal. For that is where the root of the whole problem lies. 

Our own democracy has been severely weakened by those two men, and my
comrades and I fought to preserve our democracy. "The principles of a free
constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive." So wrote Edward Gibbon who wrote the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.  We now have a man, a Prime Minister, who nominates his Cabinet, the Senators, the Judges, the Commanders of the Forces, the Queen's representative, the heads of Government Departments, the CBC - the lot. Canadians have been sleeping or spell-bound for 45
years! And who was it, what Governments were they that "Killed Canadian History"?

There is no balance of power in our country.

By acting as a beggar for the maggot-rotten Chrétien Federal Government, the Friends of the Canadian War Museum demeans itself. The members should all consider resigning outright in protest. Stating clearly that a National Museum should be funded by the whole Nation. All those who enjoy the freedom already paid for by those who served Canada, and by those who pay taxes, and not by having to ask veterans and their families, nor seeking support, begging from corporations, as do hockey teams, and in
return having corporations' names and logos painted on the walls and
areas of the National War Museum. Our War Museum is not an ice hockey rink! Nor is it just a repository for peaceful old bottle collections. It is the place of our National Life Blood, and which some are trying to destroy. 

The idea that the War Museum should lower its sights and "think small"
because of Chrétien's attitude, or in deference to him, ( Remember he's said twice that he is very sorry Quebecois and their Louis XVI troops lost the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.)  and that we should let him off the hook in regard to the War Museum is deplorable. - I wonder just how far and deep his Government stealth and deceit had penetrated into Canadian minds.

The slogan "A War to end all Wars" was a noble idea which failed to
recognize humans all over the planet for what Nature decrees they are. The term "Never Again" seems to perpetuate that impossible dream - for wars all over the planet are still taking place, and more are already brewing. It is that liberal Liberal idea that allows the Federal Government snuff off a demand for a National War Museum - except as a means to promote peace-ever-after, and social issues, for, in that case, who needs a War Museum, or Armed Forces except for ice storms or forest fires? All we need are "Peacekeepers", which is now all we've got! Peacekeepers, with troops in the lower ranks who go because they get paid a little more to do so, and they find it hard to support themselves, or their families on what Chrétien pays them to subsist on in Canada. (I was actually told that by some unhappy Canadian soldiers on the 11th of November, 1999. Remembrance Day.)
Chrétien orders these young men to be sent all over the globe solely to
enhance his ego.  You notice how he escapes accountability by not declaring war when there is one. (Serbia). It is easy to digress from the Museum's ills when the Museum   is only part of a much greater national disease!

The gentle deer can only run from the predator when the predator seeks
his prey - and the deer is not always successful. The lion thinks twice
before attacking one his own size. That is the unalterable working of nature, of which we are an unalterable part. We must be strong and able to defend ourselves to the best of our ability. This has been deliberately weakened by the liberal and Liberal ethos. I could quote to you the exact words used by the Soviets at the height of the Cold War to attempt to subvert the NATO
allies will to stand firm, by a Great Peace Overture. It seems their effort took root in Canada, and you notice we are very two faced and silent about what is happening in Russian and its war in Chechnya against the Chechen people this very day.

Let us hope our democracy is not irrecoverably lost - but unless there is a drastic change in the minds of Canadians very soon, it certainly will be. The disgrace is that our young people know so little about our roots and heritage. I will not write to you again, Sir, unless invited. I have a high regard for you as a comrade-in-arms.

Reg. R Dixon, CD. Maj. Retd.
25 River Oaks Court,
Stittsville, Ontario.
Canada. K2S 1L3.

PS. I am sending copies of this letter to a number of military friends and freinds of Canada across the country. The subject is far too important to bury.