april 07, 2009 11:49pm
Niagara Falls – Fonthill. Ontario
May 10 , 2008
Niagara Falls – Fonthill. Ontario
We met on Friday night at the 613 Legion in Fonthill. I interviewed seven veterans in our first round table type of interview.
On Saturday May 10, 2008 we held our second “Rally for Veterans” Appreciation Day, with similar results as the Kitchener Rally. The veterans will tell you if you would bother to ask that, after WW2 and Korea people wanted to forget. The reporter for the Niagara Falls Review wrote a good story that was very critical of the poor turn out for the Rally from Clare’s Harley Davidson. John Clare was very supportive of the “Rally for Veterans”. We were covered by local newspapers including the Voice, which published a full page article on the rally the Wednesday prior to the event. The article explained what the Friends of Veterans Canada was all about and informed their readership of our planned rally. We had a poor turn out for our rally but I interviewed seven veterans from the area. We plan to return to Fonthill and Niagara Falls to complete a more in-depth interview with the veterans we have documented so far and to possibly gather additional veterans to interview. This mission is to important to your kids and Canadian History and a bad turn out for our rally to will slow down our video gathering mission.
