Please take "A Pittance of Time" to honour our veterans ...

[Spazito]

Please watch and listen to the video at this site. The song is written and sung by a Nova Scotian and asks only that we take "A Pittance of Time" to remember our veterans and all that they have sacrificed.

http://www.terry-kelly.com/pittance.htm#

[Bassic]

1. Remembrance day should be a public holiday. nt

[yvr girl]

5. It is a public holiday in BC

I gather it isn't in Quebec.

[ailsagirl]

2. Thanks for posting that, Spazito

I am overwhelmed by the Canadians' show of remembrance for
its veterans. In the States, at least, the parts I'm familiar with,
people act as if it's just another day. :(

The red poppy is a poignant reminder. (From "Flanders Fields", I'm
assuming?)

[Spazito]

3. Yes, the poppy symbol was adopted as a direct result of the poem

Yesterday was amazing. There was a record turnout in Ottawa to pay tribute to our veterans and the numbers that came out in my little city was phenomenal as well.

[ailsagirl]

4. I'm glad the turnout was so good

McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" has always been one of my
favourite poems.