12-11-2017 01:19 via thestarphoenix.com

Remembrance Day more important now than ever, says veteran

As the final notes of The Last Post rang out, a haunting silence settled over the SaskTel Centre as more than 7,000 people stood to honour the sacrifice of Canadian soldiers through the generations. 
John Peters, who served in the navy during the Cold War, was one of the many veterans in attendance. 
Referring to himself as a peacetime veteran, Peters said in an interview that he spent 90 per cent of his time deployed on two ships, the HMCS Assiniboine and the HMCS Iroquois, allowing h
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