Remembering

Today (the 11th... it's after midnight now) I stayed home for the most part of the day... remembering. Not just those men and women who fought and died but of those who survived and made a life for themselves and their families even after the chaos of war. My parents and their siblings and friends lived through those times and because of them we were raised in relative peace. I am grateful for that and so I sat throughout the day and thought about my parents, my grandparents and aunts and uncles now resting together in peace.