Worst Experience

Interviewer: Tell, tell me Mr. Pfeifer when you think back on your experience in Korea, can you think of the worst thing that happened to you there, something that stands out in your mind as being the worst? I don't know if I should tell you this but yeah there was, I was a RP that's Regimental Police with the, with the PPCLI's. and what was happening, some of the guys didn't want to wash there own clothes eh...and so they got the, we used to call them (Inaudible) and, and they did the laundry for them and for doing the laundry they would leave some of their clothing there. And I don't know whether they were running short of clothing or whatever but my job was to go, me and another guy were supposed to go down there and take all this clothing back. Well, these poor women they worked for that. They cleaned all their everything up and so they left them this stuff and it was hard I couldn't, I couldn't go there and say "Well you gotta give it." I did though, I went and I told them and they wouldn't, they didn't want to give it. So I fixed the bayonets on, on the rifle, and said that "You have to give it, my job to see that they gotta go back." and this one, one girl she had, well, I guess they didn't have anything they didn't have a, they were starving too. So, she didn't want to give it and she come, she come towards me, you know like...like yelling and I, actually I got scared and I was armed! But she finally cooled off and we told her we have to take all the equipment back that's Canadian Military equipment, and it belongs to Canada, you have to give it back. They finally gave it back but that was, that, that stuck out in my mind for a long time, cause here was a girl, she was ready to jump me without any ammunition or anything just bare hands and I, I, I don't think I could have shot her. I don't think I could have, because I just couldn't and here she was, she made such a big thing out of it. Anyway we got our equipment back and that was, that was really sad for me.