Description
Mr. Chiasson shares the emotions of dreaming of fellow comrades and experiences of so many years ago.
Havelyn Chiasson
Mr. Chiasson was born May 14, 1921 in Misquamicut Island, New Brunswick. He attended an English and French school while his father worked as a fisherman. When war was declared in 1939, Mr. Chiasson was recruited to the Carleton York Regiment in Bathurst and later with the North Shore Regiment, a regiment he would remain with until end of wartime. Mr. Chiasson held the position of wireless operator and found himself travelling overseas which would become a 5 ½ year experience. Mr. Chiasson was part of the D-Day and Battle of Normandy landings where he reached the beaches in St. Aubin-sur-Mer, Normandy. He carried on through to Holland. Mr. Chiasson remains very active about his service years, speaking to our youth about the importance of service to our country.
Transcript
I dream all the time. I dream all these crazy dreams, every night. I am still dreaming and I often wonder why. And you’ll see people, you know, that, you know, like last night I dreamed about people that were killed on D-Day and you see them young. You see them in your mind’s eye, you know, and you’ll see all these people that fell next to you and somebody next to you, even sixty years after that. It all keeps coming back so it’s hard. And most Veterans are the same way. They still dream about all those things. They never, it must be in the back of the mind or somewhere that never leaves because why would you dream about somebody that has been dead for sixty years, you know.