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Description
Mr. Peterson describes the light-hearted attitude of Canadian soldiers new to France, and how they got a sense of reality after being moved to the front.
Transcription
We saw, to tell you the truth, we saw a lot of fellas who were bandaged here or bandaged there, you know, on leave or something. But it didn’t seem to fizz on us, because we didn’t give it a thought about the war, doing’ that. Not a thought. Sure, you have accidents, that’s what we put it down to - accidents. But we were young and enjoyed every minute of it. You know, the different part of life. But we soon forgot about that.I know there was a sergeant there, in uniform. He was in charge of the whole deal, I think he was - tell the fellas where you’re going to go and how many had to go this way and so on and so on. Wasn’t very pleasant, those memories. You soon forget about the early days. Of course, so many after that to take the place of. A little, or maybe a little louder or maybe more excitement to it or something. Excitement, we got that later on, don’t worry. Yeah, we sure did.