On Remembrance day, this Windsor veteran remembers the 'scores and scores' of people who didn't come home

I joined at 19. I did 37 years with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. I was over in Baghdad, Iraq in 1988 for the ceasefire between Iran and Iraq. It was really a good thing for me to join and do the time. When you think about Remembrance Day and the idea of Remembrance Day, what comes into your head? What's the first thing? Many things. I suppose. Ramp ceremony in Afghanistan. I think about my uncle, whom I never got to meet. He was with the Royal Canadian Air Force and then moved over to the Royal Air Force. He's buried in Durban, South Africa. And just the scores and scores upon people that, you know, they left to fight and never come back. But it's important to do this every year because, like they were saying, It's the kids in the bleachers that... If they don't get taught it and as we're losing more and more veterans from Korea and we don't have any left from World War II, the stories don't get passed on and they're raised in a world where they think this is the way it is. Well, it's like this for a reason, right? You have to build it, you don't just get it.