A Real Treat - Ice Cream

Sharing Ice Cream With Civilians
We were running out of desserts. You know, no sweets. That was happened, that happened right after the Gap. We sent, we were told that there was a restaurant opened just over the border in Belgium, that we can get ice cream. I don’t know how I forgot to mention that before but that was, that’s something that was really rare for us. So, we got the, the place where it was and off we went. And we found the grocery store or whatever it was and they had ice cream. And we brought it back several gallons of different ice cream. And we took what we wanted, what we needed, you know. And we took a whole lot so we could divide between the three other platoons. So that was one, one nice thing we had. And you know something, on our way out, there were stores along that street, and one of them were displaying the fur coats. I mean that’s, that’s during the war. That’s during the war. We, we thought about that later, what the hell’s going on, you know. But on the other hand, you got to think about this. These people, especially the French started way before they invaded Poland. They’ve been occupied for five years or maybe even six years, before the Germans let go and it was pitiful. They were the people that suffered the most. And we shared some of our food with, with the French civilians. They shared their wine with us. You know.
Interviewer: What did they think of you Canadian soldiers?
Oh, they liked us very much. Oh, they would do anything for us.