They came to remember. Nov. 11 a large crowd gathered outside of a former cattle barn in Lorne to pay their respects to Canadian veterans. They weren’t ...
Hugh Muir was the guest speaker at the RCR Remembrance Day service in Lorne.Nov. 11 a large crowd gathered outside of a former cattle barn in Lorne to pay their respects to Canadian veterans.
“Can you hang on to it for three years?” he asked. That’s when he would retire from the military, and he dreamed of owning the place.Not long after, Smees got a message from Fabian Henry, founder of Global Alliance Foundation Fund asking about the history of the farm. He was interested in seeing it become a place for veterans of the Afghanistan war. She explained how both their parents immigrated from Holland after the Second World War and started farming.
“I get emotional talking about it because if it wasn't for the Canadians coming into Holland at the time, our parents wouldn't have made a new life here and we wouldn't be here,” Smees said. He came to realize that for Bowen, it wasn’t about how good it looked. What he cared about most was having a personal connection with the people doing it.
“We've lost more soldiers now to suicide post-Afghanistan than we did actually on the battlefield in Afghanistan. That's something that's deeply concerning,” Linton said.
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