Remembrance Day 2016

This November 11th Remembrance Day I will be paying respect to the "traditional" Veterans we see and honor this time of year, older men and women who have served our countries faithfully in past wars. 

I will also be paying respect to today's Veterans who are still in their 20's, or early 30's. Not much older than my own two kids, being sent off to to a foreign county to fight for what they believe in. 

Veterans now include the whole spectrum of people as diverse as our community.
Remember and honor them all....Men, Women and the Children affected by war.

Sc

Remembrance Day 2015

November 11th is Remembrance Day here in Canada.

Unfortunately I'll be traveling on this day, I typically pay my respects by attending the very well attended memorial at our local hockey arena. I'll be paying respects in my own way on November 11th.

I've become a bit of a history buff of the fist world war thanks to my Dad, particularly about the ANZAC's (Australian and New Zealand Army Corp) and the Canadian involvement.

Here are a few great movies to watch this time of year....

Gallipoli: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082432/
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Passchendaele: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092082/
The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele.

The Water Diviner: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3007512/
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.

And a new one:

Hyene Road: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4034452/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1
Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars - all stand at the intersection of modern warfare - a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems.

All good movies worth watching.

Lest we forget....

Scott

Remembrance Day

Monday November 11th is Remembrance Day.

On this day we pay tribute to the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty. This memorial day is observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War 1.

Canadian, Australian and New Zealand armed forces have fought together in many conflicts including: (to name a few)

Second Boer War (1899–1902)
Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–1920) 
WW1 (1914 - 1918) 
WW2 (1939 - 1945)  
Korean War (1950 - 1953) 

"The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem "In Flanders Fields". These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I"

Winston Churchill once said:

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

Sc