Jaci Dawn

This is my 500th post on this blog.

I wanted to post something special about having written 500 posts. It seems like I should mark the date somehow.

But everything I want to post pales in comparison to June 6, 1944: D-Day.

Over 5,500 Allied soldiers died on the beaches of Normandy. Germany lost between 4,000 and 9,000. It was a terrible beginning of an end to a terrible war, the second “war to end all wars”.

There was no end to wars, only an eventual official end to that war.

So for my 500th post, I offer up a red peony (sorry it is not a red poppy) and a long silent moment to all the men and women who served during World War II. (Note: the red poppy dates back to WWI and the poem by John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”. But it remains a symbol used by veterans of Canada, the US, Great Britain and France and especially is used by disabled veterans. John McCrae was a Canadian.)

Remember.