Attention!
Cette vidéo est disponible en anglais seulement.
Description
Mr. Keys recollects being in Chicago with the merchant marine when the war broke out. He then went to Regina to visit his mother and subsequently enlisted.
Transcription
And I can tell you this exactly. I was in Chicago, we were unloading newsprint for the Chicago Tribune off the ship that I was on when the war broke out. I can remember these, these shore workers, Americans, saying, "Well, that'll be the last we'll see of you guys, you'll be in the war." And I can remember telling them, "Don't be too long you guys, you'll be along over there too." "Oh no, we're not getting caught in this one," they says. I said, "Don't worry." And, of course, I didn't know that they still would never be in if the Japs hadn't dropped a load on their heads. That part of course came later. But anyways that's what I said to those guys. And I said, "Sure." I went back and we went right up to the lake head and I took my discharge from that ship and went straight out to Regina to see my widowed mother before I enlisted.