My Friend Jack!
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My Friend Jack!
Well, I never got to know any soldiers except
Jack Chimaraque. I guess I kind of saved his life
you know in a way. I never said that.
He could speak a bit of German or Polish and
there was about 6,000 people from a regiment that
surrendered at Tobruk and he got friendly with them
and he left me there. They were prisoners of war
about six years them guys. They were well organized,
they knew everything and he got in with them and
went off on his own. But anyway after the war
he’d come back, I met him in England.
I was in Brighton, I was down having a drink in
a pub and he come in and said, “Lend me ten
pounds George.” I said, “Yeah, I got some money.”
Lent it to him. I thought there, I’ll never get that back.
You know he married an English girl that’s why he
wanted to get the prisoner of war and after the
war they must have had about six or eight children
and they came back to Manitoba. He lived up in
Fort Osborne and well he’s a real glamour boy,
he’d dance all night and that type of guy, real
good. So I thought I’ll never see him again and
I was drinking in what they called a Merchant
Hotel in (inaudible) Manitoba on a nice day and
we ran to the beach for the Moonlight Special,
a train that run down, the people of Winnipeg would
go down there and have parties and go back.
And all of a sudden the door of the hotel open and
Jack came in and he said, “Here’s your money George!”
And I never expected that.
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