Remembrance

In 2006, I got a call and they said that “We need somebody to lay a wreath for the 90th anniversary of the No. 2 Construction Battalion. Would you do that? ” And I said, “I’d be honoured to do that.” Remembrance Day for me for quite some time meant that I had to get out in my grey coat and stand on parade for an hour and a half or two hours. Normally, in most of the Remembrance Days that I, was participated in was as an active member on parade out West, cold, but this time it was different and it struck me quite profoundly that here were people that I knew, didn’t understand why they had fallen on hard times. Didn’t understand what they had contributed to the country or to the effort to defend the country and found a new awareness and for that I certainly have a greater respect for what goes on, on Remembrance Day and remembering those people. And I went down again this last year and this time laid a wreath for the Black Veterans.