MONTREAL — On Remembrance Day, Bruno Plourde said his thoughts were with a comrade he lost while the two were deployed in Afghanistan.

“We have a special place in our heart for him today,” he said Tuesday morning from Montreal’s Place du Canada. “For all the people that lost their lives — or who sometimes came back, but not whole as a person.”

The veteran spent 40 years in the Armed Forces, also deploying in the Congo and Bosnia. He and his comrade were both serving in the same regiment in Afghanistan when he was killed. Canada’s mission to that country lasted between 2001-2014.

When Remembrance Day comes around, Plourde said, it’s easy to remember those who paid the ultimate price; what’s more difficult, he said, is to keep them in mind every other day of the year.

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