Become Good Citizens

Heroes Remember

Become Good Citizens

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I go to the field house out here every November and I regularly attend this building for New Channel Legion, which is the biggest one in Canada, by the way. The people who set this museum up for the people that tell the kids to come and visit us. Of course they learn a lot by just by looking around... looking around the building here. We tell them to be sure they become good citizens, that war can happen anytime before we are ready for it. We never know where a war is going to break out next. I think some of our European friends and some of the South American friends are not entirely free from war, so we tell them to be good citizens and that’s about it.

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Mr. Jackson reflects on November 11th and stresses good citizenship to youth.

Donald Jackson

Mr. Jackson was born in Field, British Columbia on August 25, 1915. He was well educated, having completed high school and three years of university where he studied accounting. A friend convinced Mr. Jackson that he could earn a better living in the air force, so he enlisted. Unlike most Canadian pilots, his war experience started in Southeast Asia, where the Allies tried to stem the Japanese advance. Mr. Jackson was then deployed to India and flew bombing sorties into Afghanistan. He became ill, shipped back to Canada and then joined a bomber squadron, piloting a Halifax plane. On a bombing mission over Peenemunde, he was shot down, captured, and remained in a POW camp until war’s end. After returning to England, he married the nurse who had cared for him in India. Mr. Jackson remained in the RCAF after the war, taking part in the aerial mapping of Canada’s North. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Legion, and still dabbles in accounting. Mr. Jackson resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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