From Artillery to Infantry
Heroes Remember
From Artillery to Infantry
And I remember this captain from Yorkton, Saskatchewan. He had
me in, he said, "You can't go to an infantry, this is a higher
branch of the service, artillery". I said, "My brother is
putting in a claim for me." He said, "Why would you want to go
to the infantry?" I said, " I don't want to sit here trying to
shoot down air planes with a BB gun." I said, "And not only
that," I said, " I'd like to maybe see, anybody I kill." I said,
"I'd like to be able to see who I'm killing, right face to
face." That's exactly what I said to this captain. He was so
disgusted or something with me that, bang he signed that thing
and I was out of there within a couple of hours.
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