Vince Courtenay
Vince Courtenay had been in the Korean War less than two weeks when a bugler arrived to play the Last Post.
Low-flying aircraft strafing enemy positions flew overhead to support U.S. Marines at the front lines about a kilometre away.
“I’d got some food and was sitting beside a World War II veteran and didn’t know it. I wasn’t even thinking of Nov. 11 to tell the truth and this bugler went up and stood on the high part of the ground and started playing the bugle,” the 85-year-old Windsor veteran recalled Wednesday.
“I said to the guy, ‘What the heck is this?’ and he said: ‘Some day they’ll play that for you.’”
That was Remembrance Day 1952.
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