War is Terrible

War is terrible. But when you’re young, you don’t think of the consequences, you think of the adventure and that’s what you do. I’m not a hero in any shape, you know, I’m not a brave man. Really, underneath I’m a little bit of a coward I guess, I don’t know. But I’ve always figured, you know, it took a bit of guts to go ashore there from the landing craft. But in those instances, you have established relationships with your buddies. Don’t let them down, they’re your buddies. Even you might be scared and I was scared many a times. I was very proud to be a Canadian volunteer. We had a population at that time about ten, close to ten and a half million and fielded an army or air force, a navy, you know, all combined, of nearly a million men. Now that from ten million of a population, that’s a feat. And we were, our war effort for production and sending food and so on, it’s unsurpassed. We had a good effort there but if you can avoid war by negotiation by all means do it because I don’t like to see young men, you know, when you go there to the grave site, you’ll see the age of these young men and if you could just picture your brother or your cousin or something of that age. It’s not a glorious thing, it’s massacre, it’s slaughter. I’m just an ordinary guy and I was happy to do my bit.