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) . ‘m I 9% | * ; J TE Cobpszag PA _ SfaRk 7 ) a ! h Lest we forget eteran is a hero ® i MA Les rget, every veteran is 0o C _ o | f ; I f 1 . e j;zg;,z}r“'- ther, my husband and I decided .r,‘ ay 5%@ â€"»;â€" ~"r T j e e ; including â€" suddenly appeared. It strafed the convoy . V that it was time to tell this probably very i it se _ ue sns ¢-§§ 2P A «6 . w?’; tanks in the and once the damages were assessed, it \__ Eypical story of a World War I veteran for _||||\\ mt o n ie ; W C( o hold. _ The: was discovered that the bullets went § ___ tworeasons. , es . 4 odag s e 3 Re t i a J crossing over between each truck. The fighter did not hit â€" _ ‘First, although Dad was not afrontline ||â€" â€" â€"â€"â€" | â€" ; en | [ umieeast | â€" se the â€" North athing, ks | _ soldier, his life was definitely in perilon | _ . c ww Weil B * T8 _gfl: | Atlantic was By 1943, Dad was on his way to Sicily by | _ many occasions, making it clear thatevery _|| _ _ _\ * / { ¥€©2,)]F } [Â¥ P | very rough boat. They arrived at the harbour but were i member of the armed forces deserves to be _ Rillees., e c J3 fi;‘( U je. > e and stormy told to remain on the ship in their ' | called a hero no matter in what capacity ||||\ Weeee “m hi cA e on im e * . and . the compartments which held four men plus | _ they served or are serving. n e a o 6 io e on 6. % _ V |.chains meant . their personal possessions. By this time it * b | { Second, stories and experiences have a _| || w " eV | Mesa ol it _’{‘ _\ | to hold. the ~was nightfall and pitch black. s | tendency ‘to disappear if we, the || s i . o M C "huas nsl tanks stable The ships sent up barrage balloons. ) _ generations following, do not make an s w O O [| broke free. Then the Germans started bombing the ( effort to listen and take notes. We are, | p e SA s es 3 5ns i M .&wj The tank . ships in the harbour. Some of the bombs | . after all, a compilation of the knowledge _|| e c ol "-;’.:5‘,'_ W O o crews were fell four to five feet away from the ship. | and endurance and the suffering of our _ | _ u_4 iz "A. -‘&*fig l": ‘| sent into the . The resulting concussions caused the ship | ancestors and if we are not aware of their â€" | & # e S "'â€":‘:«-,,15‘%51‘- hold to reâ€" to lift into the air, and then, of course, | experiences, how can we know ourselves? 0 es L Ar a ,;E; \| chain them ~come back down again. In dad‘s { It would be so easy to forget unless each . |a _ nepeielt 1 l : es W O | but in the compartment the movement caused allâ€"the | generation really tunes into the previous "a ."l‘f WO _ ) process four . duffel bags to be scattered everywhere and | one. . wee or five men â€" much to the soldiers‘ amusement, one man > y aute | â€"| $0, with that in mind, we have tried to P were crushed was sure he had been hit. He was â€" by a } pu;fdown on paper the stories we heard & 4 to death. duffel bag. 5 fromour Father as he told them over the . : 8 ¢ * Dad spent After another very close encounter with ; . ygz‘}%s. We have tried to be as accurate as Lance Corporal Ken Winter in Italy during World War II a‘ while in a German fighter plane, once the men were j j goséitbl:e, but in some cases we may not . E ng 1 a n d , â€" let off the ship, they were ordered to move ; i ave the correct date or exact location as s 5 s where _ his . through Sicily with the Allied Forces. the memory dims over the years. fi:&ifig&gfggs&:fi?fi’eagtggfis%t%? f convoy moved out to the Cliffs of Dover. They then landed in Italy at the time ofa«,, I{like many in the year 1940, Ken Winter Jim and Art who also ennsted 8 Here he made his first encounter with the very prolonged stalemate in the fighting, _ enlisted voluntarily in the army, however, Dad leff Canada in 1942 and as a member _ enemy. In a convoy, all vehicles must keep The Allied forces only had occupation 0 not before marrying Ethel Joice on August of the 1st CanadianArmored‘Corp) Hea a good space between them and for good . the beachhead. The men were under | ! 6,~§]§94Q.‘fo the end of that year, he was Recovery Section. He sailed for égélandg reason. As they were coming around a / p We 8X /j doing basic training in Peterborough and ® trooprgxip W hich alsolcerried equipment bend in the cliff a German fighter plane Continued on page 8 ; I