Today (and every day, really) is Veterans Day, and I’d like to thank my father and others for their service and sacrifice.

Incidentally, now that I live near Canada (and get to watch CBC’s figure skating coverage), I’ve seen how they wear red poppies on what they call Remembrance Day in honor of their veterans, as do the British, who call it Armistice Day. That’s a lovely gesture, isn’t it? I wish it would really catch on here, too — though I guess American lapels would get crowded, with the U.S. flag pin already so ubiquitous…

Here are some faith-related links on Veterans Day:

• Veterans’ Day: Dad’s silence (Episcopal Cafe)
• U.S. Army chaplain says deployed troops take comfort from prayer (Catholic News Agency)
• Military suicides: An epidemic we must stop (Chaplain Mark R. Johnston for The Huffington Post)
• Coalition seeks moral objection to war (RNS)
• France honors memory of Muslim WWI veterans (AP)
• Pondering pacifism today: 11-11-10 (Bill’s “Faith Matters” Weblog)

Share your thoughts, and any other links that I can add to this list, in the Comments section below.

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