A Canadian Armed Forces member suffered “life-altering” injuries after being attacked while supervising air cadets selling poppies in Hamilton, Ont., on the weekend, local police say.
A 59-year-old commanding officer for the Royal Canadian Air Cadets was overseeing the sale of Remembrance Day poppies outside a restaurant on Nov. 1 when two boys approached the cadets and “blew a loud air horn directly into their ears,” the Hamilton police said in a press release.
The boys ran into the restaurant and the man followed them “to confront them about their actions,” police said. A struggle ensued after a woman, who was not originally part of the dispute, intervened….