Newfoundlanders Were at Ortona

We supported the Canadians at Ortona, it hasn't been acknowledged. They just had a reunion over in Ortona last fall, last year. Nobody asked me to go over there. I don't believe,
I don't know any Newfoundlander that did go. And I read a book about Cassino, ah, New Zealanders, Indians, Gurkhas, English, Americans, no Newfoundlanders, mentioned. We haven't been mentioned in any, you know, writings. Farley Mowatt was at Ortona and he came down, he became a Newfoundlander. He stayed down in Newfoundland for years and he wrote books, "The Whale for a Killing" and ah, oh I forget. And then just recently, he wrote a book "An Old Bird Sang". I read that and we weren't mentioned. And ah, there was another one he wrote too about Italy, especially about Ortona and there's a town that was hard to take and ah, but we were there and we supported them but they never, nobody's ever mentioned us, yet. Which is rough, you know not rough, but you'd think somebody would say "Oh yeah the Newfies were there too!"

Interviewer: You would think so.