Originally posted at Tripod: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
Remembrance Day
It is fitting that today it should be raining. Here in Canada it is Remembrance Day. It is a day when at 11:00am everything stops and people remember the sacrifices of those Canadians who have died in the service of our country. The politics that led to the wars are placed aside. Today we mourn the loss of children eager for war service and the professional soldiers who led them. War, the monster that devours life and leaves behind the carcasses of once living flesh. Someday the monster will be put to death. Until then remember the monster, the children, the soldier. Perhaps then the lust for war will diminish and life be given a chance to flourish.