Veteran shares message with Thunder Bay, Ont., students on Remembrance Day

It's an honour to join you today. My name is Captain Chris Drewes. I serve as an infantry officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. I've been in the military since 2004. I've deployed to Afghanistan several times in 2008, 2009 to 2010. I think it's important today that kids have this put into context. It's easy to forget these things because of the relative peace on this side of the world right now. So it's hard to imagine these types of things and we need to learn from these stories, learn from the veterans. Learn from our history and move forward positively and not forget the sacrifices that we've made. Hi, my name is Rocky Fron. I'm in Grade 8. Remembrance Day means to me a significance of the past. We honour it today in respect of all the soldiers who have fought for us and we continue to remember them today. I'm Hannah Kaukinen and I'm in grade eight. To remember that the people who fought in the war are, they were people with families and not just soldiers and that they had people who loved them and some of them just never made it home. My name is Lilia Thompson. All these soldiers fought for us and they just put so much work in and just imagine having to do that every day and live with that. So it meant a lot. After the First World War, communities across Canada were grieving. I don't have a Remembrance Day personally. Every day is a Remembrance Day for me. A lot of it is just personal history. My own stories. The stories of others who didn't get to go home. The stories of people whose voices I can still hear. I'm proud of every troop I get to instruct or lead, be with on any sort of mission, operation, or training. Any course, anyone who passes a course, I'm proud of all that. So long story short, it's just making a positive impact in your lives.