[MsMe]

Stephan Harper shouldn't have been asked to attend the ceremony. In my opinion he should have chosen to attend the ceremony due to honouring the veterans on his own will.

A friend of my father's ended up in POW when he was taken at Dieppe. He did survive the war but has since passed on from natural causes many years later. He would only ever talk about when the war was over and was down to about 80 pounds when he was taken to England. It was visible to the naked eye that he was missing fingertips more then likely due to frostbite no doubt. Not sure I would want to talk about an experience like that either as I am sure it was total hell. Hence why we should always pay our respects to any veteran that fought in any war.