Awaiting the War
Heroes Remember
Awaiting the War
I can remember being in high school, like, I played football, I
had a good time, chased girls, all the rest, but as the war wore
on, fewer and fewer guys were there to play football. They all
signed up, soon as they got to be eighteen years of age they
were gone. And so when it came to play senior football there
wasn't any team to play with. I played four years junior
because, we, we finally had a composite team, I think the last
year, but the, the senior team sort of, there weren't enough,
and, and we took a lot of casualties in that school, mostly in
the Air Force. I think our first casualty was a Navy guy, but my
sister's, or my wife's brother was killed in the Navy. He was
torpedoed in Valleyfield and killed. He, he died there,
and, but the, most of the pictures that were posted, of the
casualties, when I was there, were Air Force, cause the Air
Force fought the war from the beginning. My dad made me get
out of the Sea Cadets because my marks were failing. My marks
were going down at school and so he pulled me out but then he,
he got all ambitious and wanted to join. Well I said, "You
know," I said, "you know how I feel." "Yeah, I know, I know how
you feel and you, and, and so if you feel that way then how do
you think I feel?" So we both joined together. And funnily
enough I was promoted before he was, because he became an
officer but, but I, they pulled me out and made me a bombardier
almost right away because I could, I knew all the drills from
the Sea Cadets. So you know they said, "Does anybody come out
here, and can teach these fellas how to draw?" I said, "Sure."
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