Taken from another web site: I find this quite fitting for today, remembrance day :
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On November 11, 1999 Terry Kelly was in a drug store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. At 10:55 AM an announcement came over the store’s PA asking customers who would still be on the premises at 11:00 AM to give two minutes of silence in respect to the veterans who have sacrificed so much for us.
Terry was impressed with the store’s leadership role in adopting the Legion’s “two minutes of silence” initiative. He felt that the store’s contribution of educating the public to the importance of remembering was commendable.
When eleven o’clock arrived on that day, an announcement was again made asking for the “two minutes of silence” to commence. All customers, with the exception of a man who was accompanied by his young child, showed their respect.
Terry’s anger to wards the father for trying to engage the store’s clerk in conversation and for setting a bad example for his child was channeled into a beautiful piece of work called, “A Pittance of Time”. Terry later recorded “A Pittance of Time” and included it on his full-length music CD, “The Power of the Dream”.
And this is the video.
A Pittance Of Time
-- Brian, Ontario Canada,

















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Bob #2
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#1 posted 1650 days ago
Bob
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rikkor
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#2 posted 1650 days ago
Nice. I wanted to crawl into the video and punch the guy—but he finally got it.
Hutch
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#3 posted 1650 days ago
Thanks. I’ve already sent it to my Dad.
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GaryK
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#4 posted 1650 days ago
For those who don’t know, that is the exact time the guns of World War One fell silent. The war was over.
That was the war that saw over 60,000 people die in one afternoon.
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#5 posted 1650 days ago
our imagination cannot even come close to the reality.
My heart aches, for them, for us, for the next generations
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#6 posted 1650 days ago
Excellent—-Memories never stop.I was discharged from the US Army on November 11,1970 at 11:00 PM,from Fort Lewis,Washington One day after returning home from Viet Nam. HAPPY VETERANS DAY to all VETERANS
-- GEORGE
dustygirl
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#7 posted 1650 days ago
God bless our armed forces past and present for their sacrifices for our freedom.
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Russel
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#8 posted 1650 days ago
Thank you.
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John Gray
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#9 posted 1650 days ago
I never forget this one!
Aka Armistice Day, the day papers were signed to end WWI. Later changed to Veterans Day to honor our military men and women for all our wars.
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mmh
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#10 posted 1650 days ago
Thank you for reminding us how important this day is. My husband is a retired veteran and is extremely proud to be one.
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#11 posted 1650 days ago
Brian – thanks for pointing us to this outstanding tribute – I’ve sent it to family members as our involvement overseas ranges from WW1 to Afghanistan.
-- Phil in British Columbia
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#12 posted 1650 days ago
Thanks for the link.
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#13 posted 1650 days ago
Brian, Thanks for the link and to our troops and our veterans God Bless and thank you.
CtL
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#14 posted 1650 days ago
We must NEVER FORGET those who have served to protect us. God Bless them all
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#15 posted 1650 days ago
and are we living in a way that honours them and what they gave so that we could be free?
-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
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