Today is rainy and cool (3 degrees C or 37 degrees F), not the greatest weather for standing for a service at the cenotaph, but that's what waterproof footwear, raincoats and umbrellas are for. Just before we headed out our neighbour informed us that the service was moved indoors at the Legion and it was already crowded there. Ed and I decided that we'd skip the formal service and walk to the cenotaph and observe a minute of silence. To our surprised there were over a hundred people at the cenotaph --- many of them students from the local Catholic high school. We arrived just in time to hear the last of In Flanders Fields being read and to hear a prayer from one of the teachers.

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My father served in WWII.