I had a lot of near-misses, the same as everybody else that was in the front.'

'You think about those guys a lot, (men who) were good buddies with you up in the hills. (However), when you sit around and say, 'My God, this is my country,’ I get a little choked up when I think about… thinking like that.'Īll these years later, Graham speaks generally as a man who is glad to have served and who knows how fortunate he is.

“They thought you were kind of stupid to go into something like that. 'Most of the people that say that didn't have anybody serving there,” he said. When asked how he feels whenever he hears the term, Graham was blunt and heartfelt. In the shadow of the First and Second World Wars, the Korean Conflict between 19 has been referred to over the years as 'The Forgotten War.' And us Cape Bretoners, I think we adapt pretty quick to most things.' 'Anything that moved out there was the enemy, but you learn to adapt. He can still recall those lonely, dark nights in Korea's mountains. “I'll do that until the day somebody comes to honour me.' 'It's nice to be here at my age, and be able to honour the guys that served and the guys who didn't come home,” Graham said. His father was a Second World War veteran and his older brother John served with him in Korea.īoth men have passed on, so Graham knows that soldiers of his vintage are ever dwindling. 'I don't know why, but I'm still here - and still in pretty good shape,” said Michael “Mick” Graham, outside of the Remembrance Day service at Centre 200.Ībout a month shy of his 90th birthday, Graham is the only Korean War veteran left at Ashby Legion Branch 138. On a morning when people of all ages who have served came together to remember, one veteran in Sydney, N.S., stood alone amongst them all.

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