End of Overseas Duty

I'd been there from the time I was 23 to 28, and yes I was happy but, it was a strange feeling, cause, it was a cultural shock to go from War time Europe to peace time Canada.

The people home, you see, naturally were fed up with war and they just wanted to get on with things and we needed, we really needed to talk. I think it was too bad that now a days if people had gone through a bad experience they encourage them to talk and everything but we were not encouraged to talk. I said to my brother while I'm going to talk, and she says, oh no you won't, well, he and I used to go for long walks and talk, but every time I'd open my mouth about something that happened overseas, they'd say, you wrote about that, we heard about that in your letters, ya know.

Interviewer: So it made you feel that you had to keep all your experiences inside?

Umhmmm Well even to this day, recently on November the 11th, or there abouts, I was at this group of people and low and behold one of the other girls had been in (inaudible) in a different unit altogether, I mean she was with girls, I don't know, women's core and we'd both been overseas but nobody wanted us to talk about it. They wanted to tell their own things about the war. (Right) And about people they known, who had died or who had done this or that. And to this day I think people do not want to hear Veterans talk about their own experiences.