>Canada, like the US, has been very blessed, but the citizens take it for granted. I don't know why, but it seems to hit home for me more and more, the older I get, that I could just as easily have been born in Somalia or Russia, or most any other terrible place, but instead I live in the "land of the free and the home of the brave." And, I am fully cognizant of the fact that we are free because of the brave.

Yes John. I too think those thoughts from time to time.