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Remembrance Day is a big deal in Canada. In many ways, Canada became a real country through the shared sacrifice of the first world war. Now that we are losing young men and women to war again in Afghanistan, it has taken on renewed meaning.

I spent the day with my daughter, her Irish dance club entertained at a retirement home and two different veterans' halls, then we joined my sister and her swing band as they played old big band tunes at one of the veterans' halls.