The last surviving Second World War veteran at the Dominion Royal Canadian Legion branch 78 has celebrated his 95th birthday on May 4th.
MacNeil said he doesn’t think the soldiers who died want to be remembered as heroes, “just the fact that they did the job.” “Soldiers went to war and that was a very, very sad thing to see, and some didn’t come back,” said MacNeil, who wants people to never forget that fact.
He said the memory he has of the soldiers is something he carries with him to this day. “The soldiers who went to war were scared, many of them were scared, but they didn’t admit it,” said MacNeil, who joined the army at the age of 18.