‘We have to support young veterans’: Manitoba legions push to get younger veterans involved
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The Royal Canadian Legion is pushing to get younger veterans and their families involved, including the West Kildonan Branch 30 in Winnipeg.
The Royal Canadian Legion is pushing to get younger veterans and their families involved in the organization.
Ernie Tester, the president of the Manitoba Northwestern Ontario Command of the Royal Canadian Legion, says while membership numbers are currently in good standing in their division, the focus continues to be on getting younger people involved.
“We have to support young veterans, work with young veterans, communicate with young veterans and welcome them,” he said.
Tester says the Manitoba Northwestern Ontario Command had 17,297 members as of Dec. 31, 2022, and about 14,000 have renewed their membership this year. But he says they’re still pushing to get younger veterans and their families involved, in order to ensure the Legion has support for years to come.
He says looking up to veterans when he was younger was the reason he got involved in the legion back in 1975.
“I think it’s up to us to work with young veterans and we can support them and be proud of what they’ve done, what they’ve accomplished,” Tester told Global News.
“It means so much to me, I looked up to these veterans years ago and I still respect these veterans and I believe we have to respect all veterans.”
At the Royal Canadian Legion West Kildonan Branch 30 in Winnipeg, that is exactly what they’re aiming to do.
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