War and Remembrance
by Mark Steyn
Seasons of Steyn
November 11, 2017
I spent much of the morning before Veterans Day in various TV green rooms with a whole lot of vets, and also a young lady whose father died in Iraq in 2006. She is rightly proud of the dad she lost when she was barely old enough to know him, and he would certainly be very proud of the way his young daughter has turned out. But I wonder more and more whether our society is worthy of the terrible sacrifices of so very few. For Remembrance Day around the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, we present this piece from 16 years ago - the first November 11th after September 11th (as anthologized in my book The Face Of The Tiger). I can't precisely pinpoint the moment when "the day that everything changed" changed again and consigned the post-9/11 era to history, to the rear-view mirror of a fast receding past. But this is how it was in those first, vivid weeks of a new war:
https://www.steynonline.com/7285/remembrance
