Ladner's Bob Orrick has republished his book about Canadian sailors in the Korean War.
Indelible Memories, a retrospective look at the conflict, now includes more stories from veterans and other updates.
"It's important that the indelible memories of the people who were there, ought not to be lost through death," he said.
Orrick spent about a year in Korea, serving as a communicator aboard the HMCS Athabaskan, one of the destroyers the Canadian Navy sent.
He originally published the book in 2002 after working on it for 12 years.
"It's memories the guys had - the times they spent there. What happened to them - some of them were on shore, some of them were at sea."
Orrick said he spent "five or six years" chasing one veteran down so his story could be included in the updated version.
He says the stories aren't all "shoot 'em ups."
"It's not that type of book."
Orrick previously said he wrote the book "to make Canadians aware that a) there was a Korean War, b) Canadians were there and c) the Canadian Navy, which I was part of, had done a heck of a job."
He served as a public information officer for the Korea Veterans Association of Canada for three years in the early 1990s.
Orrick is currently working on another book about the Korean War.
Visit www.boborrick.com if you're interested in buying Indelible Memories.
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