Camouflage lessons came in handy

I am very sentimental with those things, you know. It does bother me, you know, it did bother me. It still bothers me and that is, but uh ... There was, it’s pretty hard to say, sometimes you think, well, that’s water gone under the bridge, you know. As far as I’m concerned, I always liked watching the armistice. I get, I get that and I do spend some kind of sad moments listening to the, what goes on in there, you know. And I do, when I look at those chaps marching along there, well I was one of those. You know what I mean, it all comes back to you. I had one episode just as the war was over. So the troops begin to come back from overseas, and in the Armouries in Calgary. I was in there when the batch came back from overseas, and they came. I was … my job was discharging them, see. And I was standing there and it was cold, cold. It was in the drill halls, and this young guy came up to me and said, “Sir,” he says, “Can I talk to you? ” I said, “Sure, go ahead.” “Well,” he says, “I owe you.” How the heck did he put it now? It was a case of what I taught him in there. He says, “I’m here today and I listened to what you taught me,” he says, “I’m here today.” And he is still a young lad, that bothered me. And that was … I said, “Well, how so? ” “Well,” he said, “It’s in regard to camouflage.” He said, “You told me in lectures and that, you told me what to do in the case of having to camouflage ourselves quick. If I hadn’t have done that,” he said, “What you told me, I wouldn’t have been here today.” And I thought it was nice to come and tell me about it