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NBC's Kevin Tibbles offered an unspoken reminder that Canada was once part of the British Empire when he wore a poppy to report on that nation's military dead from the War in Afghanistan, once part of the British Raj. The poppy evokes the fields of Picardy where millions were killed in the trenches of World War I. It is worn by Britons on Remembrance Day, formerly Armistice Day, aka Veterans Day. The cortege for each of the 97 Canadians killed in Afghanistan travels the same 100-mile route from airport to morgue through Ontario, Tibbles told us, and so "a grassroots phenomenon has risen out of a nation's grief." Each time the hearse passes, citizens line the route to salute it. The road is now called The Highway of Heroes, Autoroute des Heros.
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