The Common Bond as Canadian
Heroes Remember - Canadian Armed forces
The Common Bond as Canadian
Transcript
Well, I went to many ramp ceremonies and it was sad, very sad.
I always made sure I didn't stand in the front row
because I would inevitably cry.
What we did, I mean even our relationship with NATO headquarters
and the Role 3 hospital because the Role 3 hospital at the time
was being manned by Canadians.
But you know we were,
we were contributing to that in a major way.
It's kind of like an office environment
so I am just picking up on that point,
but you're right because everything that we did
was affecting the quality of life, the quality of that experience
while folks were on the base, right?
Including like I said, you know,
the cleaning and the gyms and the quality of the food,
you know what I mean, all of that is very important to people
as they came back to the base
to launch their next operational mission.
I really didn't have much to do with the Canadians that were there,
let's say from the Army and their operational mission.
I lived in the same building with them but I really, you know,
they were doing their mission and they had a different headquarters
and they worked in a different place
and so I was almost just an oddity in that regard.
I'd kind of come and go from the building
and likewise there were other little pockets of Canadians serving,
serving on the base but working for a different unit.
It was always neat to find those other Canadians
and to see them and it was almost like,
you must know each other already,
like you've got that common bond right, so.
Description
Although not directly working with the soldiers in the field, Ms. MacDonald expresses the awareness of their presence within the same compound.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- November 22, 2013
- Duration:
- 2:02
- Person Interviewed:
- Jo-Anne MacDonald
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Location/Theatre:
- Afghanistan
- Branch:
- Air Force
- Rank:
- Colonel
- Date modified: