Thunder Bay, Ont., students honour veterans through No Stone Left Alone project

We often hear the words, lest we forget, and we will remember them. We're here today honouring a former soldier and former police officer. His name is Private George Armstrong. He served in the 10th Regiment of the Canadian Mounted Rifles. And after the war, he was a town constable in Nipigon, where he was actually killed in the line of duty as a police officer in July of 1919. And he's buried here with just other veterans. It wasn't until 2012 that the provincial government recognized that he was a police officer killed in the line of duty. So today we wanted to honour him along with our No Stone Left Alone program. So we're working with four schools this year. So we come along with those schools, and every veteran's headstone, we go through, we clean off any of the biologicals, the bird feces, that kind of stuff, and it gives a chance to the students to actually see, put names to people. When we say we remember them, well, let's actually remember them. Say their names, say what they did, what unit they were with, what war they were in. Today we're remembering the people that fought for our freedom and made this country what it is today. And their stories carry on for future generations. You take home respect for the people who fought for our country and fought for our freedom. But the students, the interest in the students is phenomenal. It's rather astounding actually. There's a wide variety of interest. It's fascinating to see how the students really are interested in this.