Today is Rememberance Day. Today, 90 years ago, World War One ended. 90 years ago today marked the end of four long years of a war where the front barely moved 10 miles in either direction. They called it 'The War to End All Wars', 'The Great War'. But 21 years after those last shots had been fired, 21 years after the western world had believe that it had signed the last peace treaty it would ever have to sign, the Wehrmacht crossed its eastern border into Poland.

In World War One, it is estimated 8,500,000 soldiers lost their lives. Of those, Canada gave up about 55,000 of her sons for King and Country. Remember them.

In World War Two, almost 21,000,000 SOLDIERS were killed. That abhorrent loss of life is not even half of the total number killed because of the war. In that war, 37,000 Canadian soldiers gave their lives to drive back Hitler in Europe, and Imperial Japan in the Pacific. Remember them.

Since World War Two, Canadian men and women have fought for peace or freedom in Korea, Bosnia, Serbia, and other theatres I am likely forgetting. And even now, the Canadian Forces are working to give the Afgani people the freedom they have not had since the Cold War. Since 2002, Canada has lost almost 100 soldiers. Remember them.

Today is Remembrance Day. On the Eleventh Hour, of this Eleventh Day, of this Eleventh Month, please, take a minute, and Remember.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872-1918)