Editorial: This Remembrance Day, we have much to remember

Lest we forget.
The phrase — taken from Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 poem, Recessional, and before that from the Book of Deuteronomy in the Bible — has been uttered with reverence since King George V launched Armistice Day in 1919 to honour the estimated 1.1 million Commonwealth soldiers who died during the First World War.
Over time, Remembrance Day evolved to also honour the 5.3 million or so soldiers from other allied nations who gave their lives in that terrible war — the w