James Eagle served in Canada\u0027s military for 25 years despite suffering in the residential school system as a boy. He died this year at 88.
After his own military career, James Eagle moved to Ottawa and played a key role in the fight to establish the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in Confederation Park.“Jim Eagle was the kind of person who would always advocate and stand up for others,” Ottawa West-Nepean MP Anita Vandenbeld told Eagle’s funeral service earlier this year. “Right up until the end, he was still calling me to talk about Indigenous seniors’ housing.
James Eagle, second from left, and fellow Korean War veterans, left to right, Jean-Paul St-Aubin, George Guertin, Bill Black and Gordon Gallant compare commemorative coins given to them by the Royal Canadian Mint in a ceremony at the Canadian War Museum in 2013.Soon after leaving school, James Eagle decided to join the army as an infantry soldier. It was December 1952, and the Korean War was in the nation’s headlines.
James Eagle holds the Veterans Affairs wreath at the Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Monument in Ottawa on Nov. 11, 2000.Eagle’s career took him across the country and around the world. He did two tours of duty as a peacekeeper in Cyprus, spent four years in Lahr, Germany, and was stationed at bases in Edmonton, Calgary, Suffield and Winnipeg.
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