[GMMAC]

Thanks and God bless you and yours to all of our Vets !!!

[GMMAC]

PING!

[sageb1]

"They do not ask to be remembered alone, but for us to fight our enemies as they fought."

Amen.

[Clive]

Well said, padre.

[Clive]

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[headsonpikes]

"not victims looking for memorials, but fighters looking across the ages for comrades."

Nails it.

[RansomOttawa]

Darn straight. Thank you Fr. de Souza.

[trimom]

Our neighbors to the North have many problems, but rememberance is not one of them. I was working in Toronto last year on Veteran's Day. Not a person was without a poppy on the lapel, including me. And at 11 AM, all went quiet. The plant closed production and not even a traffic sound intruded. I was deeply moved, then shamed, that my country failed to pay the same level of respect.

[PioneerDrive]

Great post, Thanks.

[afraidfortherepublic]

And those of us south of the border should take this to heart, as well.

[Cacique]

Bump

[Grig]

"No doubt, Tim Hortons is right in its assessment that the opening lines would not be recognized by many Canadians without an explanation. Things are quite dire when that national doughnut maker -- with its finger on the artery-clogged pulse of the nation -- concludes that the national memory is sufficiently atrophied as to require prompting about perhaps the nation's most famous English-language poem."

There might be some atrophy, but I think dilution is more the case. I don't think I saw one visible minority at our local remembrance. How long until the descendants of those who fought those wars or lived through them here are the minority?