Veterans and service members memorialized in Windsor [Video]

There are 40 banners displayed on hydro poles along Wyandotte Street East from now until after Remembrance Day.

“We can’t forget those men and women that went off and not necessarily to war, but those who went and served,” said Marty Flanagan Veterans Banners Project coordinator for Royal Canadian Legion Branch 255.

“They went and signed a blank check, you know, up to and including their life for Canada. So it’s the least we could do is put a banner up to make sure we’re going to remember them.”

The project is a partnership between RCL Branch 255, the Olde Riverside Business Improvement Association and Enwin Utilities.

Linemen spent two hours on Sunday putting the banners in place.

“They were total pros and they knocked it out of the park,” said Flanagan. “We had more damage than we thought originally. So we had to do some, switching around to where …