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Mr. Rusling talks about the boat trip that they had made up the river and how beautiful the scenery was. He remembers the beauty of the jungle when he was sitting up on the mountain waiting and that he will never forget that beauty as long as he lives.
Frank Rusling
Frank Rusling est né à Belton, Lincolnshire, Angleterre, le 30 janvier 1922. Son père a fait déménager sa famille dans le comté de Suffolk, en Angleterre, où il a grandi. Il s'est enrôlé dans la Marine royale à l'âge de 15 ans parce qu'il adorait l'océan. Il est entré au service des communications de la Marine et a reçu l'instruction en signalisation visuelle. Il était très doué dans ce domaine et a rapidement gravi les échelons pour atteindre le grade de timonier. Le premier navire sur lequel il a servi fut le HMS Sheffield. Toutefois, il a travaillé sur d'autres navires et s'est rendu dans diverses parties du monde avec la Marine royale. Après la guerre, il a joint les rangs des policiers du Canadien Pacifique, où il a travaillé pendant 30 ans. Il habite aujourd'hui à Saint John, Nouveau-Brunswick.
Transcription
It's not all, it's not all death and things like that that are terror. The boat trip that we made up the rivers; you know I had seen films of this as a boy of the Sambo on the River you know and all this, but the, all the forest comes down to the sides and the crocodiles on the sandbanks and things like that. It was beautiful when daylight broke you know and to see all this. And the other thing was when I was up that mountain, up that hillside and sitting up there at night and as dawn broke, to hear the jungle come alive with the animal calls and the bird calls, and to see the sun rise, and you know you move from darkness to daylight so quickly in the southern hemisphere. Twenty minutes you, from black darkness to, but to see it come up over the jungle it was a tremendous experience and so even, even in the, with the war going on around you, there was still time to admire the nature's beauty and I shall never forget that as long as I live.