I’m writing this brief blog on November 11th, the day when the free world remembers the fallen in two world wars and scores of regional conflicts. For many of us who are a bit younger than those who participated in battle it seems surreal as we hear accounts of the personal horrors that they went through. And yet many of us have fathers or grandfathers, mothers or grandmothers who fought and survived.
Their stories (if they’re willing to tell them—some aren’t) seem like scenes from a movie, too brutal to be real. But real they are. And you can see those memories come to life in their eyes as they recount what they went through.
The point of it all was winning freedom from tyranny. They fought so that we wouldn’t have to. We are forever indebted. We honour our veterans. We will never forget.
