A Moment is Not Long Enough

Yesterday was Veteran's Day, aka Remembrance Day and Armistice Day. In 1918, on this 11th day of the 11th month, at the 11th hour, the Germans signed the Armistice and World War I was formally over. And so, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 2008, people across the globe observed two minutes of silence in honour of veterans of war.

Why does it feel like we haven't gotten anywhere? Maybe because we are still at war and people are still dying.

Take the 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. On July 4, 2007, four soldiers from this division were killed by a roadside bomb. They were in an armoured vehicle in Afghanistan. On our American Independence Day.

This isn't the first we've heard of the 3rd Battalion. In 2002, an American pilot dropped a bomb during night-time exercises that killed four from this same battalion, and wounded eight others.

When it comes to who lives and dies, war does not observe boundaries. Why then do we?

Things that should be boundless:

Love
Acceptance
Forgiveness
Charity
Hope