The last thing I expected to see at a Canadian veterans’ post in Nova Scotia was a TV news story about a mass shooting in Boston. On vacation in Halifax, I was about to attend my first old school R&B “hootenanny” last Saturday, a monthly dance party hosted by a close friend and her husband. While the DJ hooked up his equipment and patrons settled in with drinks and wings at the Army navy Air Force Veterans in Canada Unit #349 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, I stood in front of the TV watching CNN and staring at the aftermath of...