Motivation to Do Well
Heroes Remember - Korean War
Motivation to Do Well
Transcript
The three of us used to chum around together and heard about
the Korean War. Now we never knew where Korea was or
whatever, we said “Heck, let’s join, let’s go and see.” And
our intention was to go for three years, go, go to Korea, come
back after three years, get out of the military and go back to
school and go to university. We went on to Vancouver and we
joined the service. My father wasn’t very happy with me with
that because he said I was taking a lazy way out. Because you
know in those days working on the trains he saw how the
soldiers acted, you know drinking and carousing and having a
good time and that was his way and, of course, in the early
days blacks weren’t supposed to join the military, you know it
was a white man’s war kind of stuff. So he was a little
against me joining the army so that’s one thing I had to prove
to him, that I could join, that I could do well for myself.
Description
Having enlisted for the Korean War, Mr. Patrick remembers the displeasure from his father about his decision and how this gave him motivation to do well.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 1:11
- Person Interviewed:
- Errol Patrick
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Korean War
- Branch:
- Army
- Units/Ship:
- Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
- Date modified: