In Canada most communities have somewhere a memorial to the dead of the Great War, known now as World War One. In the 1920's a rush to remember the war to end all wars lead town fathers of every community to erect stone momuments to mark the sacrifices of the Great War. As the stones were lifted skyward, it is doubtful that those watching expected, or anticipated another, greater, more devestating war within their life times.Yet now, momuments all across our nation - Cenotaphs as they've been called, mark the Two World Wars, the Korean war and the involvement in United Nations Peace Keeping Operations around the world, and in time the Afghanistan Conflict will take its place, along with the names of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in that desert conflict.
Today has been a day of Remembrance across our land, but thankfully in Manitoba, life actually pauses to allow those of us who want to remember to take the time to say our "thank you"s to the Veterans, and to those who lie far from home in foreign lands.
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