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Description
Mr. Mac Culloch shares a humorous story of how the fifteen Canadians in Sarajevo at the time share a pancake breakfast supplied by a care package from home.
Wayne Mac Culloch
Le Major Wayne Mac Culloch est né en 1953 au Cap Breton et il a grandi au Québec. À 18 ans, il a fréquenté le Collège royal militaire pour ensuite s’enrôler en 1968, à titre d’ingénieur militaire. M. Mac Culloch a été déployé trois fois en Bosnie et une fois en Haïti. Il a pris sa retraite après 41 ans de service. Il a ensuite travaillé avec le Ministère de la Défense nationale. Depuis 2004, M. Mac Culloch est un bénévole dévoué pour présenter le “Module de la paix” avec le programme Rencontres du Canada, partageant avec les jeunes l’importance du service et du sacrifice.
Transcription
Go back to the first tour in Bosnia, there were only fifteen Canadians in Sarajevo and I was the senior individual so we didn’t get an awful lot of support from the Canadian contingent because they were two front lines away from us and it was difficult to get through all of the checkpoints to get in to us so we tended to survive on care packages that my wife would send to us. On one occasion she sent me pancake mix and maple syrup. So we managed to organize a pancake breakfast for all the Canadians. And the interesting thing about that was not only the fact that we all were given the time off to have breakfast together which was no mean feat but also I remember a young leading seaman trying to convince the local kitchen staff that the pancakes were okay because in Bosnian cuisine they only have crepes which are about a tenth the thickness of a pancake. And so they couldn’t understand us putting on this huge piece of batter and flipping it over and then eating it. It was quite the experience and a good one.