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Description
Mr. Himes recalls joining up to be sent to Korea in quick fashion - so quick his mother barely had time to react at all, let alone try to stop him.
Transcription
Interviewer: When you had made your intention known, what was the reaction of your family?
Well, mother didn't think I was going to go anyway, so that didn't matter. And... until one day I walked, came home, there's a little bit of a story here. I was taking a girl to the show one night and I happened to walk by the recruiting armouries, and there was a sign that said recruiters inside. So I went in, I haven't seen that girl since, and next morning I went to work. They said if I was still interested to go back in the afternoon, one o'clock. So I went to work, boss was home sick, and I got my cousin to look after my, I was with bread route then, and I told him to look after my route, I'm gonna check on this army bit. And at one o'clock, at three o'clock in the afternoon I had a ticket in my hand for the train that night, going to Winnipeg. Went home, wrote, mother wasn't there, left a note saying if you want to see me at eleven o'clock train, and left.
Interviewer: Did they in fact see you off?
My mother got down there. Wanted to know where the heck I was going!
Interviewer: Did she have any words of advice that you can remember?
No. She knew I was going to do it anyway, so that's the difference.
Well, mother didn't think I was going to go anyway, so that didn't matter. And... until one day I walked, came home, there's a little bit of a story here. I was taking a girl to the show one night and I happened to walk by the recruiting armouries, and there was a sign that said recruiters inside. So I went in, I haven't seen that girl since, and next morning I went to work. They said if I was still interested to go back in the afternoon, one o'clock. So I went to work, boss was home sick, and I got my cousin to look after my, I was with bread route then, and I told him to look after my route, I'm gonna check on this army bit. And at one o'clock, at three o'clock in the afternoon I had a ticket in my hand for the train that night, going to Winnipeg. Went home, wrote, mother wasn't there, left a note saying if you want to see me at eleven o'clock train, and left.
Interviewer: Did they in fact see you off?
My mother got down there. Wanted to know where the heck I was going!
Interviewer: Did she have any words of advice that you can remember?
No. She knew I was going to do it anyway, so that's the difference.
Catégories
Surprise! Off to War
Médium
Video
Propriétaire
Veterans Affairs Canada
Guerre ou mission
Korean War
Emplacement géographique
Canada
Personne interviewée
Kenneth Albert Himes
Branche
Army
Unité ou navire
Royal Canadian Regiment
Military Rank
Corporal
Durée
01:42