I Fought My War

My way of thinking is I am a peace person. I am one person that spent five years in the forces. Yes, I have instructed on the firing range and what not, fired weapons so forth, become accurate at it, but personally I have, did not fire one shot in anger. I had no reason. I did my fighting with my memory, my talk, my interrogations and that was my way of giving to my country which was very much necessary.

Mr. Decker explains how he used his skills to fight his war.

Ted Decker

Ted Decker was born in 1918 in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan. His father was an an immigrant from Austria, and worked in a coal mine in Drumheller at first, before working on farms in Southern Saskatchewan. His Mother was a district midwife who delivered over 60 babies in the area. Mr. Decker grew up with two brothers and three sisters,in a community where a Germany pastor taught him on Saturdays to read and write different languages including German. He went to school until grade seven and worked on a farm until he was seventeen. In 1940 Mr. Decker went into Yorkton to enlist and was denied, he was finally sworn in on February 5,1941 as a volunteer with the south Saskatchewan regiment as a reinforcement. After his father disowned him for joining the army he took an non-commissioned officer's course and he worked as a firing range instructor at Fort Osborne,Winnipeg until he left for overseas on December 13.