When I go to the annual Remembrance Day ceremonies, I am always impressed by the number of younger people who are there listening to the proceedings and wearing their poppies, and remembering things they never saw. When I used to go as a child, there were veterans from the First World War, but now even veterans from the Second World War are becoming scarcer and scarcer. Canada hasn't had a war since Korea, although we have been heavily involved in the former Yugoslavia and in Afghanistan, but when I was out with my nephew in his uniform, ordinary Canadians were coming up and shaking his hand. People still recognize the need for and the value of our soldiers. My own planned military career was cut short by my diabetes, but I had firmly decided in my teens to become an infantry officer and make a life in the army, as my father had. Sometimes I wonder...