For Gene Lotz, the spark of curiosity to delve into the history of those who served in war only began when the answers became difficult to find.
The son of a veteran, Lotz said it wasn’t until after his father and father-in-law passed away that he began asking questions about those who were in combat.
“I probably should have asked them while they were alive,” Lotz chuckled. “I wanted to understand what could cause a young man or woman from this area to put themselves in harm’s way on the other side of the world.”
This Remembrance Day will mark two years since Lotz finished one of his largest efforts to find an answer, which is the two-volume book ‘The Anguish of War.’
The book details the life and death of more than 1,600 people from the Windsor-Essex region who died in combat.
“That number just was mind-boggling to me, …