Secretary Duffy, like his protege Secretary Hegseth, seems to have brought with him the Fox developed skill of being grippingly insipid when dealing with allies like the Canadians. ‘No military’, he stated. Perhaps he wasn’t aware that the red poppies we pinned on at Veterans Day and the poem “In Flanders Fields” that our VFW leadership read last recall a remembrance of the Canadian courage in Belgium during trench assaults in WWI. “In Flanders Fields the poppies grow, between the crosses, row on row….”