Please scroll to the bottom of this post to see photos of the veterans from my column.
Every year at this time myself and my partner Mike have to deal with the devastating losses our families have had to live with due to war. The November 11 Remembrance Day commemoration has always been a day of great sadness in remembering the veterans of the First World War and the Second World War as well as other wars. Those memories have been compounded with more sad truths through the research we have been doing over the past few years. We are working on media projects concerning the two world wars and some of our discoveries have been shocking.
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James Kataquapit, First World War veteran who was part of the Canadian Forestry Corp. A former Chief of Attawapiskat, he is pictured here in 1948. James McGrath, Second World War veteran, Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (RHLI), Canadian Infantry pictured here in 1950. He is a wounded veteran of the Battle of the Scheldt in the autumn of 1944. Patrick McGrath, died at 18 years of age in October 15, 1944 in Belgium during the Battle of the Scheldt in the Second World War. He was part of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada. He is pictured here in a newspaper image from 1944. John Chookomolin, died at 22 years of age in 1917 during First World War as part of the Canadian Forestry Corp. A member of Attawapiskat FN, he is pictured here in 1917.John Bradley Sr, Sergeant in the 26th Battery, 4th Field Regiment and veteran of the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944. He is a member of Six Nations of the Grand River. John F Lemieux, Second World War veteran, Royal Canadian Air Force 406 Squadron, pictured here in 1944. He is originally from Smooth Rock Falls and Iroquois Falls, Ontario.
