This tradition, growing out of The Great War, leads me to think of the Second World War and what P.M. Winston Chruchill said.

"Never have so many owed so much to so few."

Proud to have left my meager footprint on a path that stretches from my bootprint in the desert, to the jungles of Asia, trenches and No Mans' Land of europe, back to some point in history when free men stood and said "ENOUGH".

We do well to honor and remember them.

Want to make a veterans' day? Look him in the eye, shake his hand and say "Welcome Home". Sadly, for some, it will be the first time they've heard those words.