Man, I’m not doing very good on my goal of 300 more posts on this blog by the end of the year. A month has gone by already and all that I’ve posted has been memorial posts for Canadians killed in Afghanistan. We’ve lost five Canadians since Christmas, there have been four trips to the bridge made for them.

I’m praying we get past today and tomorrow so I can finally release the last one memorial from the top of the page and not have to replace it with a new one. Like the flag at the Branch, the memorial posts stay at the top of my blog until ten days has passed since the soldier died.

I started posting them after a big hoopla in Canada because the government halted the practice of lowering the flag on the peace tower when a soldier died. I decided that if we really wanted to show how much we cared, bloggers in particular could put their actions where their words were and put a post at the top of their blog. Read the rest of this entry »