Eagerness to Enlist

At them days we used to have a magistrate that went around from point to point and when the magistrate came into Port-aux-Basques, Magistrate Mulcahy, I was informed by the Newfoundland Ranger Force, they latterly became the RCMP, that the magistrate was here and he was, Mr. Churchill had a proclamation out for Royal Air Force personnel. On the proclamation I remember, “I have nothing to offer you only blood, tears, toil and sweat.” When the magistrate came I went over and I said, “Magistrate Mulcahy, the proclamation’s out for the air force and I want to enlist.” And I enlisted in the Royal Air Force. I went back and I told my, well my father had already known that I was going to volunteer for the air force. I went back and told my mother and father and they said, “That’s your choice. It’s your duty. King and Country calls. We can’t say a word.”, and they didn’t say a word. They were quite satisfied that I was doing what was normally expected of a young man at that age.