Lest we forget

Today is Veteran’s Day and I thought it would be fitting to post this link to the ceramic poppies that are now spilling out of the moat at the Tower of London, 888,248 to be precise, one for every British or Commonwealth soldier who died in WWI. Think about that for a moment; it is hard to grasp it, that so many young men lost their lives, that there was so much suffering, and all for what? I’ve always thought that the most haunting epitaph for this bloody, needless war was the one spoken by Sir Edward Grey in August, 1914: “The lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetimes.” All we can do is to remember all those who died and grieve for what might have been. http://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/the-p...