Veterans Day, November 11th. Honor them with photos and clip art.

I get out the 48-star flag that my grandmother displayed every day my father was serving in WWII. it's too fragile to hang outside but I display it carefully in the window.

I also wear the little jeweled US NAVY pin she wore constantly while he was serving. She'd leave it aside when she was in the bathtub but always took it off her dress and pinned it to her nightgown for the night. She was quite superstitious and felt it would keep him safe.
 
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Farrah Nuff said:
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Lest we forget ...
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The Canadians were in Afghanistan longer than any other time in our countries history. Twelve years. Those caskets were very heavy, about 600 pounds, as they were filled with ice during the long flight back home to Canadian Forces Base Trenton, and then the procession from Trenton to Toronto, along the Highway Of Heroes . The destination in Toronto was the Centre For Forensic Science, where the official autopsy was performed. Then the remains would be transported to the home town of the deceased member for burial. At least one member of the deceased member's unit would be their close escort during the return to Canada. At the landing at Trenton the close escort would be easy to identify as they would still be wearing their desert cammo uniform, while everyone else would be in full dress greens.

On November the 11th, Canada will pause to mourn and remember our war dead. Its not a day of celebration, not at all. A day for solemn reflection and remembrance . Lest We Forget. JimB.
 
One of the more innovative Canadian Remembrance Day programs is this one. Letters are being sent to the modern addresses of WW2 veterans, to show how they wrote to their families at home, during the war. My home address here in Toronto was the home of a Charles Edward Small, who served in my old Regiment, the 48th Highlanders of Canada, during WW2. He was killed in September of 1943, near Regalbuto, in Italy. I received a letter from Veteran's Affairs Canada, that contained a copy of one of his letters to his Mother, sent from the UK in 1942. People across Canada who live at addresses that WW2 veterans used to live at, have received such letters. This is in my opinion a good project to link modern Canadians to the men ( and women ) who served our country ( over a million of them ) in the war. 43,000 of them never came home, and there are Canadian War Graves in 23 countries around the world. JimB.
 
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