Today is Remembrance Day in Canada. Kind of late in the day for this vid, but it's a good one. Please check it out.
It's about people that don't take a moment to remember.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8poZshcDj8g

 

Thursday I'm doing Honer Gaurd at a funeral of an old adviser, friend and teacher.
The old white gloves and shoestrings are coming out of the saltbox again.
I'll sorely miss this man,I'm to fold the flag. A truely sad time for me. This man served in the Alutians in WWII. He always laughed and said, "I never felt the heat, but I sure as hell got cold".
Sorry for the thread theft, It just seemed to fit here.

 

It fits perfectly.

I'm sorry about your loss.

 

That's brisk, baby.

http://www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians...tians-wwii.htm

Aleutian weather becomes progressively worse as you travel from the easternmost islands to the west. Attu weather is typified by cold, damp fog, often accompanied by snow or icy rain. The winds often reach velocities of more than 100 miles an hour. There are many days during the year where working outside is impossible. On Attu, five or six days a week are likely to be rainy, with hardly more than eight or ten clear days a year. The rest of the time, even if rain is not falling, fog of varying density is the rule rather than the exception. Shemya, located a short distance from Attu, suffers the same fate, but to not as great an extent due to the lack of mountainous terrain. This weather is highly localized, however, and areas of high visibility can be found within 20 miles of fog concentration! The average rainfall is around 40 to 50 inches throughout the islands, with the heaviest rains in fall and early winter.

Squalls, known as "williwaws," sweep down from the island's mountainous areas with great force, sometimes reaching gale proportions within 30 minutes. The mountains are concentrated on the north sides of the islands, which results in strong off-shore winds that in turn make it difficult to find a lee along the north coasts. The columns of spray and mist resulting from the williwaws frequently resemble huge waterfalls. In the winter, the williwaws can cause snow to be blown right up your pant legs, with many having observed the phenomenon of snow blowing from the ground up!

The Aleutian weather turned out to be a constant impediment to the military operations of the United States and Japan alike. Japan, however, enjoyed one advantage: the weather in this theater moves from west to east, resulting in Japan always knowing in advance the conditions which were likely to prevail in the islands.

 

From wiki
Explain this day to me, the exact the meaning.

 

On Nov 11th at 11am everyone should give 2 minutes of silence. 2 minutes is a pittance of time (very little time to spend remembering those that lost their lives for our freedom).

If you watch the vid, you'll get the idea. There are people that don't show any respect.