Those are the ones that you must keep in mind.

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Mr. Manson reflects on how today’s younger generation has renewed interest in Canada’s Veterans, and offers some advice about gratitude and respect for our Veterans’ efforts in past wars.

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This hundredth birthday that I had, and the young people who were interested in it, the birthday part. But in the giving of the Legion of Honour medal that occurred on the twenty-fourth of February for Veterans that you knew all about, of course, I was surprised at the younger individuals that were interested in that part of it. Many of them were interested in the medals or this. Now, I didn’t care about the medals, but they told me I had to wear them, you see. Anyway, they were interested in it, the young people were interested in it and I had to talk to a lot of young people about warfare from what I saw. But with my warfare, I wasn’t talking about it. I was talking about the general warfare of real soldiers, you see, but they were interested. I would say to them, “Look here, you young fellows are coming into a country that has given you so much, given to you by the work that the fellows had done during the first wars. Those are the ones that you must keep in mind and those are that part of this that you should keep in mind when you’re thinking about what you’re going to do and what the young people should do and what should be the honour of this country that you’re living in. You should be very, very, very happy that you got a history like that to look back on.” That’s what I feel.

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