When War Broke Out

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.