On the eleventh hour of eleventh day of eleventh month each year we pause to remember all who had given their lives for the country. For days, Canadians walk around with a plastic red poppy flower pinned to the lapel. As the fallen are remembered, I notice most of them had fallen in wars abroad. Now, if each country had the army ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY to defend its own borders, there'd be no war at all.
My fellow countrymen will have to excuse the lack of poppy flower on my coat. I don't believe in war and I don't mourn soldiers killed as a part of an occupying force.
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