SANTA CRUZ – As the sun begins to settle over the horizon to the west of where I’m sitting here in the mountains surrounded by an endless parade of Redwood trees, my thoughts as I end this Veterans Day are three thousand plus miles away thinking of a lone sentry as he, or she, guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; marching twenty-one steps, turning, pausing twenty-one seconds, turning and marching twenty one steps back down that black rubber mat again.
An honoured routine kept to with the military precision executed by the Tomb Sentinels of the 3rd Infantry, ‘Old Guard,’ U.S.
Army twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year at Arlington. As a proud Canadian I always reflect on the meaning of this day, Remembrance Day
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