The Road to Korea
Heroes Remember
The Road to Korea
And I told the boss I was quitting. And October 1950, that’s
when I went down and signed up again. It’s just that somebody
had to go over there and you know, keep the, well we were told by
I used to remember my father talk, I was only, well I was
in my 20's then for the Korea. I was about 28, and one of the
old guys they called me. And they told me again, they say,
you saw we can hear him talking, they said, “It’s better to
have the war over there then coming over here.” So that got
into my mind and there we were again. And I just went down
and signed up in Toronto and that was it. When I went in
during the war you must remember the war was on and this Korea
business was just starting. And, the only thing I remember
really well about it’s just the guys again. And where we
stayed on the exhibition grounds in Toronto, we stayed in the
stalls in the horse palace there. I mean they were cleaned up
and that’s where we stayed until we were ready to go. I was
already experienced from the Second World War. I didn’t have
to take any basic training. They shipped me right over to the
school at the artillery and continued my trade as a radio man
again working wireless sets. Then they shipped us down to
Fort Lewis, Washington, and we were there for a while then we
shipped out from there and went to Korea. Awful dirty country.
I’ve never seen anything like it. I mean what else could you do.
I mean they were all bombed out and everything else.
They couldn’t do anything but live in dirt, and stuff like that.
That’s what I remember the most about it,
was just the dirt and the filth.
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