The headline here is a treat. Can you imagine what the mothers and fathers and daughters and sons and friends and neighbors of the soldiers killed and wounded "would think of it?" That war is unquestionably tied to us in modern-day Canada - through our economic expansion and  industrialization. It is not simply a waving of flag on Remembrance Day. Our rising in the world would not have occurred without those two world wars. We would be a nothing economically compared to what we are today. And our maple-leaf flag itself wouldn't exist if it not were for our soldiers, sailors and airmen during WWI. The maple leaf was the symbol and badge for Canadians in service - and not only soldiers at the battlefront. It came to symbolize the whole country. Looking back and dismissing any thoughts of national greatness through the torture of war is condescending. Should we only celebrate and honor things that make make us "feel good" and are deemed by the media as "politically correct?"