The decision to designate Highway 2 as the Highway of Heroes getting a thumbs up from a Saint John father whose son was killed in Afghanistan.
Donnie Greenslade still remembers when his son's body was returned to this country and travelling along the Highway of Heroes in Ontario to C-F-B Trenton with people along the way paying tribute and how comforting that was.
Private David Greenslade, a Saint John High grad, was killed with five other soldiers when their armoured vehicle hit a roadside bomb in April of 2007.