Final Thought

I don't feel any hatred or anything. You know once you think over it, it's war time. It's war time like I said the civilian population was wonderful people when they were... but the armed forces was like our armed forces, it's drilled into you that you're going over there to kill people, you're not going over there to try and talk them into surrendering. I enlisted to fight for my country. I didn't want my country to be taken by anybody else and that's what I enlisted for, was to fight to save our country and that's what I thoughtI was over there to do and I didn't care where I was gonna do it because that's what I signed up for. So I don't hold anything against the government for sending us there because it was their decision. They were all men who died with, if they died, they died with dignity. They didn't... I was all proud of all my men that served with me.

Mr Lynch talks about how he feels now many years after the war.

Wilbert Lynch

Wilbert Lynch was born in Portage, Manitoba on April 6th 1923 and was raised on a farm with two brothers and three sisters. He left home when he was 13 years old and worked for five dollars a month plus room and board at a few local farms. Three days after turning seventeen he joined the army and trained on the Bren gun in Camp Shilo and became a member of the 18th Manitoba Reconnaissance Battalion.