Fact: The province awarded a goat several medals for its service in World War I.
The most important thing was to keep smiling. Storms, for as dark as they would often be, only ever lasted so long.
He watched his siblings crumble with depression, and his cousins cough up blood, as they fought in a war that truth be told had very little to do with any of them. He watched his ancestors scream, bleed, and get up to do the same to someone else. The world spiraled as they all tried to simply gain their footing.
He pinned a medal to the fur that helped him remember that this, too, would one day pass.