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Mr. McKerracher speaks about his opportunity to bring his family to Germany during his Regular Force service and the positive experience this was for his children.
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I guess that maybe, one of the happier things was in 1953, when we were sent over to Germany as a unit. And we travelled on a Canadian steamship, and I don’t even remember the name of it now, but the whole regiment was on the same ship there. You know, we had a fine time. At that time, we had four children. They were there, too. The whole families went. Well, they thought it was choice. Not only was the children taken care of, but at meal times, the crew took care of the kids there, so that we could enjoy our dinner. It was beautiful. We were in Germany, not far from Dortmund. The children were young, and when we went over there, was no Canadian schools. So there was three of our four children of school age, and they went to German schools. So, by the time that the Canadian schools were set up, they could speak quite a bit of German, you see. Quite nice.