Originally Posted by Chives

Um I can't legally drink.

Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Oh great, two drunks trying to explain things to one and other, this should go smashingly.

I guess for Canada, WWI is kind of a special thing because it's one of our very first real wars, one in which we were represented on a global scale. It was really one of our real attempts to show how much we mattered to the whole world. For most the 1800's we just kind of did our own thing, so WWI showed how grown up we had become. In our history classes, there's far more of an emphasis on WWI history then I found in my US History classes I took.

Veteran's and Memorial Day in the US is definitely aimed more towards the living Veterans and that is awesome because the US definitely has more of those at the moment then Canada. I guess it's just seeing everybody wear the poppies gives a real sense of unity in Canada. Like I said, it didn't matter whether you were a business man or some gutter punk, whenever November rolled around in Canada I would see them all wearing poppies. I guess by goal I meant this feeling of commemorating the Veterans of now and yore. Again, drunk person typing here, so I apologize if what I type doesn't make the slightest bit of sense upon first reading.

I didn't mean it to sound like the U.S. doesn't respect it's veterans the same way that other countries do, but I can certainly understand why someone might see it as that.