Lest we forget: Performance art delivers eternal lessons of war

Every Remembrance Day, the ranks of those who sit at war memorials, blankets tucked around their legs in wheelchairs, grow ever more thin.
There are no veterans of the First World War left. Of the more than one million Canadians who served full-time in the Second World War, less than 50,000 remain.
So much has changed since those mighty battles. Modern folk can barely imagine life without cellphones, never mind appreciate the experience of a young soldier forced to run messages between