We remember.
A colleague at work brought in his trumpet and played the Last Post in our work courtyard. It was beautiful.
Highway of Heroes in Ontario. This chokes me up every time I see it - a spontaneous salute that gathers every time a Canadian soldier’s body is brought back to Canada.
Here too. And me too.
Remember to appreciate those still around. If you’ve any friends or family who served, no matter how long ago or how briefly, let them know you appreciate it.
Called Veterans’ Day here, of course (not the same notion, I know). Mostly commemorated with meaningless sales in Wal-Mart and other retail stores, although I note none of them offer any sort of discount for said vets.
We had cake. Except I missed out on it.
Both Home Depot and Lowe’s are offering special Veteran’s Day discounts for military vets. Vets can also get a free sandwich today at Subway, a free meal at Applebee’s or Chili’s, a free Krispy Kreme donut, and discounts at other restaurants. There are also plenty of other local veteran’s discounts being offered.
I’m not saying it’s the best way to honor veterans, but at least there are a lot of places that are providing some recognition today for their service.
My thoughts on the subject are at my blog. (It’s not a commercial interest.)
Happy Veteran’s Day, all.
Yeah, I saw those ads, which is why I said “mostly”. I prefer stores like the local New Seasons grocer who offers military (active and retired) 10% off every Tuesday of every week. Now, if there was a store that said “show us an ID card and get 20% off” on Vet Day, I’d give them my business.
My Dad’s father was in the RAF Ferry Command and his plane crashed in 1941, leaving my grandmother a widowed bride with a 6 week old son.
Today, and every remembrance day I not only mourn the very real losses that wars bring, but the “what might have beens” the things my dad lost out on by growing up without a father, and what it meant to my brother and I to have a father who never had one of his own.
I go to the Cenotaph every year that I am not working. Today it started snowing almost immediately after the service. I didn’t mind being cold, others have suffered a lot more.
I saw that video last year. It just doesn’t get old.
I went to pay my respects at the local cenotaph today. The scheduled anthem singer never showed up so we all had to do our best without leadership. Pretend we are at a Canucks game our Master of Ceremonies suggested.
We owe our veterans, dead or alive.
There were a number of local observances here in Topeka, for Veterans Day. I was not in attendance, but a couple of years ago I attended for a flag retirement/burning. The American Legion will accept worn out flags and then destroy them in a proper burning ceremony. They do it on Flag Day(June 14th) as well.
A number of local restaurants gave free meals to vets, but I’ve never tried for that as I have no ID for it. Maybe sometime I’ll run of a copy of my DD214. But I’m not that hungry.
Well done the Canadians, calling “Eyes Right!” to receive the salute with dignity.
I have been to Ieper (Flemish spelling) and seen the fire brigade buglers do their stuff with the daily Last Post ceremony under a crowded Menin Gate. It’s a moving sight, as one lady in the crowd obviously found when the band struck up The Day Thou Gavest - she was bawling her eyes out and I don’t exaggerate.
Our school observed two minutes’ silence today and the class I was in, half a dozen remedial English pupils, kept as quiet and still as you could ask to see. With the teacher’s leave I recited the Exhortation at the end of the silence and they were good for that too. 
Just got back for our annual concert for the local British Legion, and I have more coming up on Sunday with three services to blow my trumpet at. We have some American guests at our parish service as a B17 crashed near our village during WW2 and we pay our respects to the crew along with our own.
We sang a requiem last night for all the war dead.
One of my Scottish coworkers had a paper poppy pinned on his shirt today.
I’m afraid that’s the best I’ve got.
I’ve been supplementing history with my kids. Today we did the German invasion of Belgium and France in WWI and the beginnings of trench warfare.
We ended it with Siegfried Sassoon’s poem Counterattack. It was fitting.
I was at the Rideau Veterans’ Home in the afternoon and there was a contingent from the Cameron Highlanders there with a piper who was playing requests on the pipes for the vets.