Barrie singer and songwriter Edward Moll has put his Remembrance Day tribute in music with his song titled Corporal Richardson.
The song started out as a poem about the trauma of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after Moll read an article about the suicide of a soldier in Afghanistan.
"I was reflecting on the unimaginable destruction to the human psyche during the Second World War," said Moll. "My father with his family of 14 had survived the ravages of WW2 in Holland and my mother and her family were concentration camp prisoners during the Japanese invasion of Indonesia."
His parents were children at the time and their emotional scars lasted their whole life.
Corporal Richardson is a fictional female solider who succumbs to PTSD and Moll says he made the subject a woman to underscore that everyone can suffer from the trauma.
For Moll, Remembrance Day makes him reflect on the trauma of his parents, his friends in the military and the sacrifice of those who gave their lives and the scars on survivors.
"What I'd like to convey in the song is that I think about this and I appreciate what these men and women have done," he said.
Corporal Richardson is on a CD of Moll's original songs titled “Small Things Shining Bright”.
"There is hope in remembering that this type of thing happens and acknowledging the trauma is part of the healing."
"Thank you to everyone who is keeping the memory alive."