Today Is Rememberance Day In Canada.
Rememberance Day ( a.k.a Poppy Day or Armistice Day) is held in Canada and Commonwealth Nations on the 11nth day of November every year and is equivalent to Memorial Day (f.k.a Decoration Day) held in the United States on the Final Monday of May every year.
World War 2 started in September 1,1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France declared war on the Third Reich. Canada joined Britain and France on September 10, 1939. China was defending territory and at war with Empire Japan much earlier in 1937. The United States continued trade with all sides like selling information technology to the Third Reich, selling oil to Empire Japan and etc. Later on the United States placed an oil embargo on Empire Japan and they responded the oil embargo by bombing Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The next day United States entered World War 2 by declaring war on Empire Japan on December 8, 1941 and the Third Reich declared war on the United States later in support of its Empire Japan ally.
The war in Afghanistan began in October 7, 2001 with Operation Enduring Freedom consisting of U.S. armed forces, Britain armed forces, and Afghan Alliance in response to September 11, 2001 attacks on World Trade Towers and Pentagon. Canada from the start sent Joint 2 Task Force commandoes to do secret missions under ally command and later on the following year sent more regulars with a larger and more dangerous role in Afghanistan. In 2003 NATO Forces assumed International Security Assistance Force.
Finally, all in all we must remember the people who fought in any wars and understand the aftermath on all sides as citizens and soldiers.