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Tears Ran Down my Eyes
Mr. Berry describes the emotional impact of visiting the cemetery at Groesbeek, Holland during a post-war pilgrimage.
He’s not gonna take me, I heard he’s prejudiced.
Mr. Berry describes how he enlisted despite a prejudiced recruiting officer.
That was horrible, that was my first experience with war.
Mr. Berry describes the devastation at Caen and the accidental bombing of Allied troops at Falaise Gap.
Work Responsibility with the 86th Bridging Company
Mr. Berry gives a general description of the 86th Bridging Company’s responsibilities, and then describes three incidents related to the delivery of material to theatres of action at the Seine River, the Rhine River and at Arnhem, evacuating Canadian paratroopers.
He must have got drunk and fell in the canal.
Mr. Berry describes the 86th’s advance into Brussels, the elation of the civilians, and how an off-hand remark erroneously implicated him in the death of a member of his Company.
How could you look at a little kid and say no.
Mr. Berry describes with great compassion how the Canadian Army did its best to feed starving children.
You’d never survive without the comradeship.
Mr. Berry describes the bonding and comradeship in his Company, and how in later years he was able to reestablish contact with a wartime pal.
I wasn’t happy as a civilian.
Mr. Berry describes his reenlistment in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and how good Military life proved to be for him.
There’s no glory in war.
Mr. Berry reflects on war in general and discusses the gratitude of the Dutch.
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