'Stand by your sons, daughters': New Brunswick woman named national Silver Cross Mother
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Maureen Anderson, who lost both her sons to their overseas service in the Canadian Armed Forces, has been named this year's national Silver Cross Mother.
While close as kids with a lot of energy, the Anderson brothers had something else in common.
They shared an ambition to join the Canadian Armed Forces at an early age.
“There’s five years between them and they fought like cats and dogs at times but as they grew, they became more and more closer,” said their mother Maureen Anderson.
Sgt. Ron Anderson’s career took him to Petawawa, Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia and two tours in Afghanistan.
There he saved the life of an injured Afghan boy under deadly circumstances.
“I didn’t know a thing about it until later on when he was passed,” said Maureen. “He would give the shirt off his back to anybody, he's just that type.”
Sgt. Ryan Anderson served in Gagetown, Yellowknife, as well as Bosnia, Ethiopia, Haiti and Afghanistan.
