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I remember having WWI and WWII vets coming to my school to talk about the wars. That was the 1960s.

We used to see a lot of former US serviceman at Remembrance Day ceremonies when I was stationed in Comox on Vancouver Island.

There was a strange confluence of former US servicemen and draft dodgers in attendance. The cenotaph was located about 1/4 mile north of Courtenay on Mission Hill. We marched to it and the vets would follow, many in electric wheelchairs.

At the cenotaph, we actually stood at a angle because of its location. The RCMP shut down the highway for an hour. Many of us were concerned that if an older person in a wheelchair had their brake fail, they would start rolling down the hill. They most certainly would have been badly injured.