Remembrance Day

I know that I just posted a long rant about the Torch this morning, but major events are few and far between in Alert (usually) so when we did the Remembrance Day ceremony today I thought I'd write about that too. Now, don't expect anything else for 2 or 3 weeks :P

I've only ever done Remembrance Day at school before, and back then it was just a boring assembly that interfered with my birthday celebration. Living on a Canadian Forces Station staffed approximately 50% by military, the ceremony was quite different. While nowhere near as grand an ordeal as I'm sure it is at a bigger Base, there was still a good deal of pomp. Byron and Bill laid the wreath for EC in the theatre ceremony. Afterwards we all went down to the end of the runway to visit the cairn memorializing one of the crashes that had fatalities here. As Bill didn't arrive, Byron (red) and I (blue) laid the wreath at the real site.

I had also thought that I'd slipped under the birthday radar (intentionally), but then someone called out a, "Happy Birthday" across the mess hall at lunch. It then got crazy, culminating with Byron starting everyone on Station singing Happy Birthday to me :) Those of you who know me, know how much I must have liked that :P

Miss you all,
Graham