Again, this was one of my fights, because the accident happened in 1988 at Bagotville. Following the accident, I had a surgery done at Valcartier in Quebec, the military base, so everything was documented in my files.
When I put in a claim at VAC for the deconditioning of my left knee, they refused, but I had the surgery in the military. Then I had to look for my warrant officer at that time, who had picked me up off the tarmac, and ask him to write a letter to testify how I was injured there. Then they accepted, but it took five years.