104-year-old Kamloops D-Day veteran awarded King's coronation medal
The King Charles 111 Coronation Medal was presented to a 104-year-old D Day veteran by MP Frank Caputo in Kamloops today.John Kuharski was bright and chatty at the small ceremony on the first floor of his retirement home on the North Shore as he recounted a few memories of his time serving in the Second World War.“I don’t like talking about this stuff, you see it happen, you see people dead on the roads and stuff… I don’t know… the younger generations have no idea what is was like," Kuharski said. "There was aircraft all over the place flying, you didn’t know who the hell was going to drop something on top of you.”The centenarian appeared happy and healthy, sitting on his walker in a large quiet room and looking nowhere near his age. His memory was sharp along with his sense of humour, even cracking a few jokes about Trump.“You’ve got to (have a sense of humour), you gotta take the goods with the bad,” he said. Kuharski did express concern for the future.“I hate the thoughts of what can happen, someone is going…
21 Sep 00:35 · iNFOnews.ca