when all else fails

Today is Remembrance Day here in Canada. None of my family ever went in any capacity to any war of any kind. Irrespective of this, I still tend to take at least a few moments on this day each year to think about past eras within Canada where signing up to soldier was a much more compelling societal idea as compared to now. To think of those young men who perhaps had no idea what was before them and to then simply not return from where they had been sent.

Then I think about the 158 Canadians that died in Afghanistan through the years 2001-2014 that they served there, and the disappointment that with the withdrawal of all western forces that country digressed back to Taliban rule.

And finally, new this year, is to think about the soldiers, both Russian and Ukrainian; through no fault of their own, were pushed into a battle that only one person wanted.