Memorial Day in the USA
While I feel deep respect for the fallen and those who came back maimed either physically or psychologically or both I am having more and more difficulty with Memorial day or Remembrance Day here in Canada. I truly don't want to belittle the sacrifice of the fallen but how much of that sacrifice was toward an honorable end? Those who died in Korea or Vietnam or the Middle East or Africa or Eastern Europe or Asia Minor did they die - "Their country right or wrong" or did they die because they believed in the cause that the war represented. Sadly I have been noting how so many wars have been misrepresented and people died for the most foolish of reasons.