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Reflecting back on his service, Major Mac Culloch expresses how the sight of a smile on a child’s face provided a sign for a better tomorrow to those living in despair!
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
The hardest thing that I’d like to share is I mentioned my job was being the operations officer and it kept me at my desk for most of the waking hours of the day. But at one point I was sent out to the coast to the rear headquarters to deal with an issue back there and I can’t even remember what the issue was but the Royal Navy loaned me a vehicle and I remember driving down the road towards the Canadian support base and in front of me was a little sub compact with two boys probably age 7 and 10 and they popped up in the back seat, smiled and waved at me and I realized at that point that it was the first time in three months that I had seen a child smile which was a little heart-breaking at the time because, you know, when you are immersed in a very dark situation or at least when I am immersed in a very dark situation I will look for opportunities for the positive and try and do a little something to provide a ray of sunshine. But this really struck me that, you know, the children saw themselves as without hope for a tomorrow let alone a better tomorrow.