November 11th... Mixed Feelings

November 11th...Mixed Feelings
Right from the very start, November 11th to me was important. And, and I attended the parade with the Camerons and everything was fine. I appreciated what was going on. But later on, it didn’t take very long, I noticed how the majority of people, the older people I would say like, like when I was working in the government for the, I was in the army working the government. They sort of didn’t think so much about the Army. About the military. And even until today they, you know they came out with a new medal, a new Canadian medal they given, they give them to children that jump over a pond or something like that. Now, what kind of decoration is that? Some of our, some of our military dismounted bombs and all kinds of dangerous work that we had to do with ammunition. And no one was ever said, “Well here you saved the lives of a few kids that were on the range, where the grenade range is.” but you never heard anything. Of course I didn’t want the publicity because with the FLQ they could come back. I wouldn’t even tell them anything. I didn’t want them to know where I lived. I was afraid that they would come home and hurt my family. So that, these things eventually, it was in my mind it went on and on and gradually then I didn’t go back. But I turned it on every November.