Good On Them

Wandering the streets of Toronto this week you'd be forgiven if you had no idea Remembrance Day was coming up. 

Including me, the total number of people I saw wearing a poppy was one.  Me.

However, I was pleased to see that Manulife had turned their headquarters into a tribute to our fallen solders.

Hundreds of Canadian flags blanketed their front lawn.

And bookending their main entrance was another tribute....

...lest we forget.

Forget what?

The ultimate sacrifice made by thousands of military personnel to fight for and win the freedoms we enjoy today. 

Nothing better captures that thought than the famous World War I poem, In Flanders Fields.  Written by Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae in 1915.

So many people today take for granted these freedoms and the sacrifices made to keep these freedoms.

On a personal note, this has always been a favourite poem of mine, as it was also one of my mother's favourites.

Why?

She was born in 1915 and went to the same Guelph high school as John McCrae, where by that time he was a treasured alumni.  

He served in World War I as solder, surgeon and poet and died in 1918.

Read that poem again....lest we forget.