Soldier: Return Home and History Lesson

soldier: It momentarily interrupts my breathing, too, according to Vancouver Courier. Mostly, it focuses the mind So much loss, so much sacrifice and right there in front of us are the men and women who deserve our respect and attention on a day for remembering. That sound, that drone, that moment when the pipers come together in a chorus of musical precision it really does, as the cliche goes, send a shiver up my spine. Youve seen them, standing and sitting in the rain, dressed in blazers, others in uniforms, all heaving with medals. It been a privilege, almost a selfish history lesson, to listen to what life was like for a soldier during wartime and what it was like for that same soldier to return home. In another time, they were on battlefields in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in Bosnia, the Persian Gulf and, most recently, in Afghanistan.I realized this year, after more than two decades in journalism, that Ive written many stories about Canadian veterans. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.