Please remember - today is Veteran's Day

ignatius
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:03:03 +0000

I remember my mother getting a phone call each year on this day from a veteran who had served with her uncle in WWI. My mom’s uncle was killed shortly after the peace treaty was signed - news had not reached the soldiers yet. The WWI veteran was with my great uncle when he died and took the time each year to call my grandmother - and when she passed on to call my mother just to say he hadn’t forgotten - and this was well into the sixties. As a child I learned the impact a simple “I remember” can have.