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WW II veteran remembers 'so many' lost comrades

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November 11, 2025

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Ed Stafford, a 104-year-old Second World War veteran and member of the Governor General's Horse Guards, has spent Remembrance Day at the York Cemetery in Toronto for at least the past five years. He says the first thing he thinks about every Nov. 11 is 'all the guys who didn't make it.... I knew so many.'

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