Peace is declared
Heroes Remember
Peace is declared
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everybody was so happy and we were just so glad to get out of it
and get home and just try and forget about it you know. You just
sort of, you know how you can if you want to really block
something out of your mind you can really try, at least you try,
you can't always do it but you do your best. So I think most of
the people I knew did that, I don't know of anybody that had any
emotional problems. You were talking about leave's and I had a
leave to go to Ireland. I had had my plans made and this and that
because we weren't as busy because things were sort of on ahead
of us and it came through that peace was declared and of course
Description
Nora Cook talks about the end of the war, and how tired everyone was. They got a leave, and she had the chance to go to Ireland, but decided to come home instead. Ms. Cook was treated like a hero when she came home, but felt that she had only done what everyone else had done. She was just glad to be home.
Nora B. Cook
Nora Cook was born in Ops Township (outside of Lindsay), Ontario. She graduated from nursing school and went on to enroll in the army as a nurse who endured a very long trip to England. She talks about the training in England, and how rigorous it was; but also how happy the nurses were to have had it, as they wouldn't have been able to handle the working conditions in France if they had not been so well prepared.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- February 14, 2011
- Duration:
- 01:43
- Person Interviewed:
- Nora B. Cook
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Location/Theatre:
- France
- Branch:
- Army
- Occupation:
- Nursing Sister
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