Remembrance Day

In Canada (and elsewhere) it is Remembrance Day; in the United States Veterans' Day — also Armistice Day or Poppy Day, depending on where you are. Begun in 1918, to commemorate the end of World War I, it is observed each year to honor the sacrifice of life and limb made by veterans and civilians in all wars since.

There is a beautiful symmetry to the ritual played out that morning — two (II) minutes of silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month; the time — in Britain and France — when the armistice became effective. Wreaths of poppies are laid (I still have the faux lapel poppy from when I happened to be in Canada one year on this day) and a trumpeter ends the silence by playing Reveille.

If one wishes to go a step further beyond remembering the dead — communicating with them — T-Shirt Fetish offers something that might help: A Ouija board mousepad. I find it quite moving.

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