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Description
Major Feyko shares a message about the challenges of overcoming an illness or injury and wants all Canadians to know there is help out there.
Transcription
Interviewer: Achieving the rank of major at the end of your career is certainly an honour for yourself and for us Canadians. And I am just going to open the floor before we conclude and
give you an opportunity to share anything you feel we as Canadians need to hear.
I think the only thing I would share is really a message to not only ill and injured members of the military but ill and injured members of Canadians that, you know, there are challenges and sometimes life does really get difficult. It’s difficult for a lot of folks but there are ways to adapt and overcome that adversity and continue to soldier on with whatever you want to do.
There’s no barriers. I’ve heard the term a lot this week, it’s not disability, it’s what we are able to do, it’s not what we can’t do which is very powerful. I think that message to Canadians is like
there’s lots of stuff that you can do to get better if you have those challenges or if you get an illness or injury, don’t stop being the person that you are. And if there are Canadians out there that want to support, Soldier On is a great vehicle to do that. And we have a great website, Soldieron.ca, or you can read the stories of the men and women who have served, who have received the illness or injury and what they are doing through sport to recover.