Remembrance 2013: In Flanders Fields the Poppies Grow

It’s Remembrance Day here in Canada (Veteran’s Day in the US) – a circled date on the calendar when we take a moment to be grateful for those who have served and dedicated their lives to protecting ours.

It’s hard for me to express my feelings about the military; I get tangled up in my own emotions. What I can do, though, is to thank everyone who has fought and who continues to fight. They’ve sacrificed so much to make sure I sleep at night untroubled, so I don’t have to make those sacrifices...