Youth Awareness of the Forces

It’s amazing sometimes, how often these young people will ask you a question, and you know that they are, some of them, are very much aware. Whether it’s because of what they hear on the radios or television or whatever. They’re aware of the Forces I guess maybe, somehow because for instance, I was in just in one shop the other day and one little, little thing, wasn’t very high. She happened to notice my Order of Canada. “Were you ever in the Forces? ” and I said, “Yes.” and she said, “Well I’m honoured to know you.” you know she’s this high. She couldn’t have been more than twelve, eleven or twelve and I thought, “Well thank you very much. You... You know something about them? ” She said, “Yes, I know about Veterans and I go to the parades and on to the cenotaph on Remembrance Day.” I said, “Well, that’s very, very right that you should do that and get all your friends to realize that we have to remember the people who have, that what we have in this country today is because of all the men who died and served their country.”