RyersOnline speaks to three young Canadian soldiers about what Remembrance Day means to them, and what it’s like to be a veteran of an ongoing war.

Lee Zaslofsky trained as an infantry soldier in Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

But when the army asked him to go to Vietnam in December 1969, he decided to desert the army and move to Toronto. He had witnessed the disillusionment of soldiers returning from harsh conditions in Vietnam and could not justify his own participation in a war he viewed as misguided.