‘Destined’ to serve: Silver Cross Mother remembers the sons she lost to PTSD
Global News
2024 National Silver Cross Mother Maureen Anderson of Oromocto, N.B., lost both her sons to PTSD after they served with the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan.
When brothers Ron and Ryan Anderson were kids, they would often play “army” in the woods, which didn’t surprise their mother Maureen in the slightest.
“Way back from there, they were destined to go to the army,” muses the 68-year-old at her home in Oromocto, N.B.
After all, the Andersons are a military family.
Maureen’s father, John “Jack” Kelly, joined the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment when he was just 17 years old, and fought overseas in the Second World War. Her mother was his British war bride.
Her grandfather served in the British Royal Navy in the First World War. His ship was bombed and he was among the survivors left swimming for their lives.
She remembers watching him habitually rubbing his hands together years later.
Once she left high school, Maureen trained as a licensed practical nurse, and then joined the Royal Canadian Air Force.
While working at the National Defence Medical Centre in Ottawa, she met her husband, Peter.
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