You must be very proud of your family's wartime sacrifices and contributions as I am of mine.    

Canada had the highest % of its citizens in military service in WWII second only to the USSR, we were considered the bravest and best of the Allied fighting forces, and we  emerged as a nation 100 years ago this week at Vimy Ridge in WWI.

One of my grandfathers was seriously wounded in the Boer War in 1899 and spent the rest of his life in pain.  My other grandfather was gassed at Ypres in 1915 in WWI and suffered severe lung damage that led to his death at 39 and ended his successful small business and my brilliant mom's dreams of university.  My dad was a flying instructor in WWII training Commonwealth pilots and later trained a Chief of The Defence Staff.  My uncle was also a WWII flying instructor (the RCAF chose the best pilots to be instructors)  and later managed a flying club so superbly that he is now in the world aviation hall of fame.

Proud and grateful?  You bet!