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He’s 100 years old. He fought in a war that most of us today can barely imagine. He saw his friends, many just boys, go off to fight and never return. He’s carried those memories for a lifetime. And recently, on live television, he broke down and asked a question no veteran should ever have to ask, “Was it worth it” When the men who sacrificed everything for freedom now look at the state of their country and wonder if that sacrifice still matters, it should make all of us stop and think. Remembrance isn’t just a poppy on a lapel or a minute of silence once a year. It’s a responsibility, to honour their legacy by protecting the values and freedoms they fought for. Our culture. Our freedoms. Our sense of community and national identity. If we stop respecting those things, if tradition loses meaning, if honour and pride are dismissed as outdated, then we risk forgetting what they stood for. We don’t honour the fallen by remembering them once a year, we honour them by living in a way that keeps their sacrifices meaningful. By standing up for our country, our values, and our way of life. He wasn’t crying out of weakness. He was crying because he remembers the cost of forgetting.