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Veteran overcomes PTSD for great uncles at Vernon Remembrance Day
The Royal Canadian Air Force veteran overcame PTSD to honour relatives named on the Vernon Cenotaph after hundreds gathered for Remembrance Day.
- Royal Canadian Air Force veteran Doreen Lambert attended the Vernon Remembrance Day ceremony on Wednesday despite living with PTSD, overcoming years of staying home to honor the occasion.
- The Vernon Cenotaph holds deep personal significance for Lambert, as her great uncles Arthur and Herald Penning are listed among the local war dead honored there.
- Arthur and Herald Penning survived the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917, an outcome Lambert called "which is crazy," while her uncle Charles Lee survived the First World War only to die in a local accident.
- Volunteers including Roger Knox and members of Army Navy Air Force Unit #5 and Vernon Elks Lodge #45 maintain the outdoor ceremony, while Vernon Legion and City of Vernon host an annual indoor alternative at Kal Tire Place.
- Reflecting on her service in northern Alberta, Lambert contrasted her frigid conditions with the trench warfare her ancestors endured, underscoring sacrifices made to preserve current freedoms.
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