Today was a good day, spent with good friends!
We met with John and Rada for brunch at the Stacked Pancake & Breakfast House.
John and I had a great conversation about our genealogy, and that led to some more Remembrance Day memories.
John's grandfather died in the first world war.............
......and is buried in the British section at Ypres. It is likely that he never got to meet his newborn son, John's dad.
There is also a Canadian section to honour the Canadian sacrifices in the war.
John's father served in the second world war as an airplane mechanic. He died of cancer not many years later, when John was six.
War is definitely hell!
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Rada and John had brought back ball markers from the British Open for each of us and, at the end of dinner Rada presented me with an Indigenous Veterans' Day dream catcher pin, which I will wear with pride on future Remembrance days!
Many thanks!
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A day with many thoughts. Stay well.
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