When War Broke Out
Heroes Remember
When War Broke Out
And I can tell you this exactly. I was in Chicago, we were
unloading newsprint for the Chicago Tribune off the ship that I
was on when the war broke out. I can remember these, these shore
workers, Americans, saying, "Well, that'll be the last we'll see
of you guys, you'll be in the war." And I can remember telling
them, "Don't be too long you guys, you'll be along over there
too." "Oh no, we're not getting caught in this one," they says.
I said, "Don't worry." And, of course, I didn't know that they
still would never be in if the Japs hadn't dropped a load on
their heads. That part of course came later. But anyways that's
what I said to those guys. And I said, "Sure." I went back and
we went right up to the lake head and I took my discharge from
that ship and went straight out to Regina to see my widowed
mother before I enlisted.
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