We’re Still Looking After Each Other

We're still looking after one another. I'm still looking, in touch with twenty or thirty people that were in my battalion that live around Toronto. I'm in touch with them, if somebody gets sick they will phone me and say what can we do to help him. Well he's alright, his wife is there and she says he's fine and he's got a son there to look after him. Okay, well you know let us know if there is anything we can do to help, you know. That goes right straight through, there's a great feeling of support everywhere. Well you do feel that's a responsibility you take on as a battalion commander. You were responsible for those lives and you do everything you can to make sure that they're well looked after and that they're well supplied and they're well trained. And sometimes you fight, you fight the brigadier and the orders back there in saying, "no it's wrong, it's wrong." "Well you gotta do it anyway." "Well alright I did my best." You are always trying to protect your family as it were. I have always been known as, I was the old man because the old man is always the colonel. He's either got to be, he's sort of a fatherly figure.