When I lived in Ottawa, every year I would attend Remembrance Day ceremonies downtown at the Cenotaph. It is a moving way to pay respects to people who made unimaginable sacrifices, regardless of your political leanings. Now that I have been away from Ottawa for many of the past few years, I miss bundling up and standing in silence with others on a usually grey and cold day. Three of my grandparents served in the Second World War (one on active duty in a submarine).

So I remember today in Jamaica. With this in mind, please check out this wonderful project by the Ottawa Citizen’s Glen McGregor. He has set up a Twitter account @WeAreTheDead that tweets the name of a dead soldier at 11 minutes after every hour. McGregor also crowd-sourced an obituary for the past couple of years. Check it out here.