Well I could come out with the cliches of you know remembering

the fallen and so forth, we will always do that, it is a day

when we stop and meditate. First of all, it's not a holiday, I

take that term, Remembrance Day holiday, I'm of the school that

Remembrance Day parade is in the morning at 11 o'clock, you're

all on the parade square regardless of how cold it is and once

you finish that then you go back to work, same with the schools.

Because it's not a holiday, it's a day when you can pause for a

few minutes and recognize the sacrifices of our past. Regardless

of what war, or peace support mission, or incident in Canada,

the individual died for, death is a death, is a death, and you

put a uniform on, first of all nobody said it was safe, secondly

you've got to understand at a certain point somebody may order

you to kill, or somebody may order you to die. And that's

sometimes what I think when I think about the terrible loss of

life in World War One, "cannon fodder" is a good term, where we

lost ten's of thousands, 120, 000's, where we lost similar

amounts throughout the war, throughout the Second World War and

to a certain extent in Korean. It's a different world now and I

don't think, I'd like to think, we won't go back that way. But

those are the things I think of and I think of my own colleagues

that we've lost in the peace support operation arena.