By Cindy Tran THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -At just four years old, Wendy Jocko knew she wanted to join the military. She was riding her tricycle down the street in Petawawa, Ont., when she saw a man in a military uniform walking out of a convenience store across from her family home. “He just really impressed me. So I made a decision then and there, that’s what I was going to do when I grew up,” said Jocko. On Indigenous Veterans Day, the chief of Pikwakanagan First Nation reflected on her own career and the hardships she and others endured as women in the military. She enlisted at 19 years old and was posted to Calgary seven years later, where she was one of the first women to enter the

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