"It's very close to my heart." Gus Martin sheds a tear as the Lament commences. "My grandfather was in the World War, and my dad was in the second war— and fortunately or unfortunately I was too young to join either one of them." Martin enlisted shortly after the Korean war and had a career in the Royal Canadian Airforce. He was transferred from Ontario to Kamloops in 1968 and then retired in 1972.