Canadian War Museum: Veterans gather to commemorate Canada’s peacekeeping mission in Sarajevo [Video]

A retired veteran who is collecting memories from members who served in Canada’s peacekeeping mission in Sarajevo held a gathering at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa on Saturday afternoon.

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Roger Chabot, a veteran who turned into a military artist, interviewed members who served during the Sarajevo airport opening in 1992, including retired Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, to create a painting commemorating the efforts of the Canadian Armed Forces.

MacKenzie is an Order of Canada recipient known for establishing and commanding Sector Sarajevo as part of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in former Yugoslavia in 1992.

“We delivered food and medicine, sometimes up to 500 tonnes a day flew into the airport a few days. I had to close the airport but we’d open as quickly as possible. It worked for those 30 days,” said …