Duty to Defend, and Youth Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
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Duty to Defend, and Youth Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
Interviewer: Mr. Sproule, when you or if you
were given the opportunity to speak to young
people of this generation or future generations
and you had the opportunity to speak to them
about honour, duty, patriotism, volunteerism,
what would you say to those young people?
Well I think it would be their duty,
if they are good Canadians,
that would be their duty and
we elect our leaders.
Our leaders are supposed to know what's
right for the country and under the
same circumstances I would, I
I would recommend that they do it.
There's an awful lot of young
fellows gone though. We have a book
that was put out by two fellows from
Brandon and it is everybody in the air force
that was killed during the war.
Where ever in the world, in flying accidents,
operations, what have you.
We also trained a lot of RAF and we trained
New Zealanders and Australians and they are
all listed in the back of that book.
If they were killed in a flying accident
in Canada, they'd be in that book.
And our part in the program was to
augment the RAF, it was never intended
that all the Canadians would just go into
Canadian Squadrons, we were to
augment the RAF. So if those fellows went in
to bomber squadrons and they were shot down
or crashed and were killed, they would be
listed in that book as would the crew,
whether they were RAF, or New Zealand or
Australian, or whatever, they'd be in that book.
If you go through that book you will see the
ages, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and all in that,
in that area. I was actually 22 when I got my
wings so I was a little older then some of them.
But I think it's, that it would be
your duty to do it.
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