Entering the Unknown

In certain areas where we would go there was, they really hated one another. Like you would drive on, you’d go up to a checkpoint and drive about 15 - 20 feet through no mans land to the other side and they’d be just, just wanting to know what you’re saying to these people and that, they hated, really hated each other. Which was kind of odd because one day they were married, mixed marriage and the next day when the war broke out they just fought against each other which was, you know, I had never seen that before. Driving through towns to get to the town where we were staying at and it was, you know, devastation in the town, just levelled, some of the little towns were levelled, destroyed, people living in cardboard boxes and that. It was, it wasn’t the same as we were used to ever, everyday in Canada. The civilian people were happy that we were there because we were giving them aid and that and helping out, clean out things in towns and trying to get things back in order.