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Words to Young Canadians

The warfare of what I went through, and what the next generation will go through, there’s no comparison. And so, I could not tell some, some young boys, “Well join the army and see the world” and all that kind of stuff because I know in myself that the next war is not going to be the same as what we’ve seen. Far from it. Because what we have seen is nothing to compare with what we’re going to see. Because, guns now, just image they’ve got guns now with radiation that they’ll just point it at something and push the trigger and the object is gone. They have them now. The Americans have them. And the type of, well everything in general, it’s hard for young people now to place themselves into warfare. They were asking me here this morning, ok you wouldn’t be able to get back in the army, nobody would want you anyway. I said “Maybe.” But remember one thing. The next war is not going to be a war where you’re going to pull a trigger and shoot people. The next war is the people that can operate their fingers and work on computers. They’re the people that are going to be important. That’s it.

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