New exhibit unveils stories of Canadian veterans lives after service – National [Video]

A new online exhibit at the Canadian War Museum is opening a window into veterans’ postwar lives.

“In Their Own Voices” is an online collection which showcases 200 interviews with veterans and their families, sharing their innermost thoughts and life experiences after military service that many veterans kept to themselves and never had the opportunity to share publicly.

“I was happy the war ended. I was very sad, and I cried, and I cried and I cried for the boys who gave their lives,” said Second World War veteran George Morasch in one clip.

Tyler Wentzell, a Canadian Army member who served in Afghanistan in 2008, explained in an online clip how he felt as Kabul fell in 2021, saying, “The speed with which the Afghan state collapsed was really disheartening because, as it was happening, I was getting messages from people that I still knew who were in Afghanistan.”

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