Remembrance Day Takes on Personal Meaning for RCMP Officer After Overseas Deployment

Staff Sgt. Jane Boissonneault says she wanted to be in the RCMP since she was 10 years old. Over the course of her career, she has completed two international peacekeeping missions, one in East Timor (Timor Leste) and one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo courtesy of RCMP/GRC

Remembrance Day has always been special for RCMP Staff Sgt. Jane Boissonneault, but it has taken on a more personal meaning since being deployed overseas on peacekeeping missions.

“My father had served in the Second World War, so I always did have that feeling for Remembrance Day,” Boissonneault told The Epoch Times in an interview, adding she would watch ceremonies with him in the nursing home when he was older.