Lest We Forget

Taking time today to be grateful for our freedom, and to reflect on the enormous cost.

In Flanders Fields, printed in 1918 by the Heliotype Co. Ltd. Ottawa | Canadian War Museum

Remembrance Day posts here, here, and here from years past.

Do you know what the poppy means?

Garden Of Flags Honours Fallen Canadians For Remembrance Day, Toronto, 2015

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Remembrance Day Canada

Today is Remembrance Day.  Click the image to check out the post I put together last year in the spirit of gratitude and remembrance.

Thank you to all those who sacrificed so much for our freedom.

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A Day of Remembrance

In remembrance of all those who have sacrificed so much for our freedom.  

Thank you.

The Country the World Forgot, again - The Telegraph UK Article 

National War Memorial Ottawa - photo gallery

Remembrance Day: Lest we Forget - CBC Canada Article

Remembrance Vignette - Veterans Affairs Canada

Remembrance Day 2010 Victory Square Cenotaph, Vancouver, BC

Canada's Highway of Heroes - Article

To You With Failing Hands we Throw - In Flanders Fields

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Remembering

In my travels across the world wide web this week, searching for Remembrance Day related material for various kids' school assignments, I came across this picture. Loved it, had to share it. I also received an email that led me to this article in a 2002 edition of the UK's Telegraph. Six years later, it's still relevant - and a good read:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3575633/The-country-the-world-forgot-again.html

I hope everyone took the opportunity to reflect yesterday - we have much to be thankful for.
According to Ben "we beyembered all the soldiers that died for us to be free and go shopping."
In a funny, almost-six-year-old way, he's got it right. Today I went to the grocery store, thankful for the freedom to do so.

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