November 11th passed without a post, and for this I apologize to those who served our country in the numerous wars and peacekeeping missions of the Twentieth century in order to secure the lives we lead today as Canadians.

Pericles once said the following:


'Comfort, therefore, not condolence, is what I have to offer to the parents of the dead who may not be here. Numberless are the chances to which, as they know, the life of man is subject; but fortunate indeed are they who draw for their lot a death so glorious as that which has caused your mourning, and to whom life as been so exactly measured as to terminate in the happiness in which it has been passed. Still I know that this is a hard saying, especially when those are in question of whom you will be constantly reminded by seeing in the homes of others blessings of which once you also boasted: for grief is felt, not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.'
- The Peloponnesian War, II, VI

To those who continue to serve our country in peacekeeping missions abroad, and to those who will serve in conflicts in the future, for there will be many, I say thank you. Lest we forget.