A new veterans freedom group that held a ceremony at the National War Memorial alongside the Rolling Thunder convoy event in Ottawa over the weekend says they hoped to “restore honour” to the memorial and help veterans heal.
“This weekend was about healing,” says Daryl Smith, a 21-year veteran of the Canadian Forces (CF) who co-founded the group Veterans 4 Freedom (V4F) which organized the event.
He says the event was needed after some of the veterans who joined the Freedom Convoy in solidarity with the truckers “to simply open channels of dialogue with the [Prime Minister], were beaten and arrested for simply standing up for freedom,” Smith told The Epoch Times in an interview.
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