By Pepper Parr
November 11th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
As the day edges towards a close, the Remembrance ceremonies behind us, we might be pausing and asking ourselves – is there war on the horizon?
Legion member reciting In Flanders Field – ” We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie …”
What will we be able to say about Uktaine this time next year? Will our democratic values have been met? Or will a despotic government have changed the borders of a country that wants to be part of the Western world and the NATO alliance that has served us so well?
What will the Americans do with the Constitution that was treated so brutally damaged on January 6, 2021, by a mob of supporters of then-U.S. President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup d’état, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election?
And how will we cope with Donald Trump’s election to a second term as President of the United States?
Veterans sanding at Veteran Square singing the national anthem on November 11, 2024
We are blessed in this country, and today, we remember those who gave so much to ensure that we are free people.
Today we did not forget.
