Poem for Armistice Day - Dulce et Decorum Est

[Mister Ed]

3. Certainly puts my morning in perspective.

I make sure to fly the flag from my front porch on Veterans Day. When I carried the flag to the porch at dawn, though, I found that I had forgotten to reinstall the flagpole holder after I painted the porch last summer.

Curse the luck! Now I had to don a raincoat and work on a stepladder in the cold rain to get the flagpole holder reinstalled. And as I worked in the cold and the rain, I reflected on what a joy, what a lark, what a picnic my miserable little task would have been when compared to the suffering and sacrifice of so many millions of veterans.