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Today, in Newfoundland you would get an 80% vote at least to confederate with Canada. So therefore I think all the younger people would automatically think. In the makeup that our people are, you wouldn't need conscription. Now MacKenzie King brought in conscription but you had to volunteer to fight, after you were conscripted. That was wrong, they should have had general conscription but he was afraid of Quebec. I ain't a bit afraid of Quebec, not even today. I don't know. There was enough warning from the time that Hitler first invaded Poland or Chechoslovak or whichever he did first, that the warning was there that this fella couldn't be contained. So I guess everybody was glad to do their part. And other than that like I say for a lot of us young fellas it was an adventure. But then of course it became a commitment. The longer we were over there and the more training we got we realized if you were going to survive you had to have the training. And I think today, that the young people should automatically have to have two years military training at the end of their highschool, well of course the ones that are not physically capable. But you'd have a hell of a lot better citizen coming up if they would have had military training. In my mind, I wish my own boys had had it.

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