The War Is Over

I was in my bed, we were in a place called (inaudible) in Holland, little town, and we were up, we had been up, not doing anything, but we went up and done a little Recce squadron the day before, come back and I was in my bed sleeping and about 2 o'clock in the morning and a guy, the guard came in with a rifle. He took the rifle and he threw it on the floor, he said "There, to hell with it, I'm not going to do another guard duty." He never went out again, he just threw the rifle on the floor and said, " I'm going home."
Interviewer: What was your reaction?
Huh?
Interviewer: What was your reaction when you realized it was over?
I stayed for 5 more months. See they asked, they wanted to bring the unit home as a unit, big show of us New Brunswick. So I had enough points, cause I'd been over there, when I went over, and I had lots of point, but they asked all the single guys if they would stay, you didn't have to stay, if you would they would stay until they get enough they bring them home as a unit. So I volunteered to stay. I was there 5 months. We turned the tanks in, got rid of them, had nothing to do, just drink and, little parade now and again, we took a lot of tours up to Czechoslovakia. We took trucks up there and left them.
Interviewer: What do you remember Mr. Gorie about the Dutch people?
Oh they're great people. Well they're so happy with the Canadians, you know, but they were starving to death. See they stopped the war there for two days and the Canadian Service Corps, the rations people they went in to three or four places, and the Germans allowed it, bring them food in cause they were eating tulip bulbs. Oh yeah they had nothing.