Description
Mr. Horowitz advises today's youth on what they should get out of the war (the past) and how it is inextricably tied in to their future.
Robert Horowitz
Mr. Horowitz was born in Cornwall, Ontario, on August 30, 1919, of Jewish parents who immigrated to Canada from Russia. He grew up in Montreal where he studied at Lord Arthur School and then moved on to Montreal High. He enlisted with the Régiment de Trois-Rivières in the latter part of 1939 when he was 20 years old and still in high school. Mr. Horowitz attended Camp Borden during the winter of 1939-40 for approximately 1.75 years. He first set foot on European soil in Scotland and trained in Salisbury. He saw action for the first time in Sicily and the southern part of the Italian peninsula before being wounded in Tremali. Following the war, he spent some time with Veterans Affairs assisting Canadian Veterans in England and later retired in Canada.
Transcript
I would say to them, love your neighbour as you do yourself. Nobody's better than you. And remember the future. I'll use an example is this here which I tell the kid: the past is your future. The future is your past. Without the future, there's no past. Without the past there's no future. So remember. You have to live in this world. And as you, as the next generation, it is up to you to see that people don't starve in the world. There's no more wars. Which is very ambiguous.