Today is November 11th. In Canada it is Remembrance Day.
And so today I raise a glass of beer, and toast friends that did not come home from the desert with me. Today I honour their memory, and those of the men who fought in wars past for this nation, and others. I will not forget, and I will live my life to its fullest for everything that the fallen have given us all.
Today I also lend my heart out to the families whose brother and sisters, husbands and wives, sons and daughter, fathers and mothers came home draped in a flag.
This is a time where not all veterans are elderly, and not all those with memories of the horrors men and women can inflict upon one another are aging. Not all scars are visible, and today I also remember those whose minds were injured from the brutality and bloodshed.
Thank you to all who stood beside me in the sands of Afghanistan, thank you to all who stood in the mud and trenches of wars past, thank you to all who took up arms to defend their nation, and our freedom.
We will not forget.
Fallschirmfuchs
To bad Armistice Day wasn't the end of all wars...
sinfulwolf (Updated )
Indeed, but war will never fade entirely from human nature.