Always nice to see Veterans at this station.
I wrote about veterans and who they are>
What is a Veteran?
By trainman:
Some veterans bear visible signs of certain service.
A missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in their eye.
Others may carry the evidence inside them a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in a leg or perhaps another sort of inner steel.
The souls ally forged in the refinery of adversity.
Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept Canada safe wear no badge or emblem. You can’t tell a veteran just by looking.
What is a veteran?
He is the soldier who spent a year or two in a faraway country. Are they the average men and women who stand for freedom?
Are they the nurses and doctors who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for years in a war?
Are they the POW who went away one person and came back another or did not come back at all?
Are they drill instructors who have never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy men and women into a fighting force and to help them watch out for each other?
Are they the parade riding Legionnaire who pins on medals and ribbons with a prosthetic hand? Are they the ones you do not see working in groceries stores or in a factory or a bus driver that has served in a war or peacekeeping for freedom of people?
They are ordinary and yet extraordinary human beings, persons who offered some of the most vital years of their lives in service to their country and who sacrificed ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
So just remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say
“Thank You”. That’s all most people need and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.
Let us remember all personal in the service that stand guard and are there for our Freedom.
That is a veteran.
Let us remember freedom is not free
God less you veterans around the World for our Freedom.