HUMBER ET CETERA
Humber’s Student Newspaper
November 12, 2021
Vol.63, No.7
JESS KERR
WE WILL REMEMBER
Ian Blackwood, left, and Sterling Hiscock, right, Cold War veterans, embrace at the Queen’s Park Remembrance Day ceremony. They worry about veterans’ sacrifices being forgotten.
Jess Kerr
Veterans worry Remembrance Day is becoming ‘just another day’ as they fade away
News Reporter Like many Canadians, Humber College student Nicole Blinoff had a special person in mind on Remembrance Day. Her late
grandfather, Herman Evertman. “I like to personally reflect on my Grandpa, who has told me numerous stories of his experiences during World War II,” said Blinoff, a first-year student in
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the Funeral Director program. “I vividly remember him telling me when he was a boy in Holland, the war was going on and he and his family and friends had to hide out in a
bomb shelter and how a bullet came through the shelter and killed his friend,” she said. Herman Evertman was born in the Netherlands and, as a child, immigrated to Canada
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with his family after the war. He had spent his earliest years in a country that never forgot, and to this day honours, the role of CONTINUED ON PG. 2