Every year, the nation sets aside a day to remember its veterans. It is altogether fitting and right that we should do this. In a dimming historic echo, we mark this day of remembrance together with our allies in the Great War, which ended ninety years ago today. In France, there will be parades; in London, albeit with a delay caused by tradition, HM The Queen will lay a wreath at Whitehall's bone-white Cenotaph.

But we have wars going on today as well. For all the lip service given those who fought them, the services for the victims of these wars, the survivors, that is, are grotesquely underfunded. That will change once draft-dodger George Bush no longer wields the veto pen and Democrats control the government. Meanwhile, Bush was in town today, re-dedicating the Intrepid; the ship may have to be fumigated come January 20th.

Until then, please show your respect and appreciation of our brace men and women in uniform by giving to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.