Checking In - 9 Nov 2021

[dewline]

Another quietly weird day. Three job applications filed, which is good. Some yard work got postponed because of other chores that popped up as the day went on.

Not sure how I'm going to observe Remembrance on Thursday.

More to do tomorrow...

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[cmcmck]

I'm a squaddy's daughter, he's a squaddy's son

Barracks brats.

His father came back from two world wars worth of being front line infantry.

Mine fought the dirty little wars of decolonialisation.

We are both military historians.

It gives you a certain view of these things.

[dewline]

No doubt of that.

I did data entry for the Royal Canadian Legion for a few Early Bird Seasons, and long before that I saw some of the footage that came out of the concentration camps at the end of World War 2 in my high school gym. The whole student population gathered for that presentation. It gave me a sense of what war should be good for putting a stop to.

I know some of what war is still really used for, and even so...