Remembrance
Heroes Remember
Remembrance
Interviewer: Knowing that some of your high
school friends went to do military service or
other service during the war, and getting back
home and seeing that they hadn't come back,
how hard was that?
I guess you expected it, but you really didn't
believe it until they weren't there.
I mean, you, you'd heard that they'd been
killed or lost or something, but it, it's,
it's November 11th when you think about it
the most, sort of thing, and still is. Yeah, that's...
Interviewer: How important is that day for you?
Oh, very important! That's... I talk at the schools
to the school children through the Legion,
of course, and, and try and take in the ceremony
but it's... See, any, any serviceman that was
overseas feels very, very fortunate that he's here.
We feel we were one of the lucky ones,
because we know darn well it could have been us.
And, and then trying, not trying to make
yourself into a hero or anything.
It's just if you went overseas and
got back, you were lucky
Interviewer: If you could talk to school children
what would you want them to remember?
Oh, the, the, I, I feel so fortunate to be able
to talk to the school children because
they don't glorify war which is the last thing
a Veteran wants, like, why would a Veteran
want to see his best friend killed?
And that's, you know that's the way it was.
You did it because you had to do it.
But the children, when you go to the schools,
it's all remembrance and thanking those Veterans
that didn't come back and, and the ones
of us that did for giving them the world that,
that we've got. The Canada we've got today,
all of that. The kids do a wonderful job at school,
they, the... Whoever got this program going,
they've got the right thing going.
It's remembrance, not glorifying.
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