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"I had four brothers during the war and of course every young person I guess wants to join up, especially when their brothers are gone."

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"We were in France, and we were in Belgium. And to me, serving with those girls was the best thing that ever happened to me."

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"Panmunjom remains and it’s the same contract. Go sign a contract every three or six months, make an agreement that will ensure the peace."

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"We landed in France on a metal strip. I had a sniper bullet go across my head as I landed as I was taxing in and we slept in slit trenches and tents, ate bully beef and did our, we attacked the Germans."

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"I got up and at that time, a bomb fell down and I was wounded in three places, left leg broken, and the right shoulder, and the left wrist."

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"The excerpt in English is not available at this time. Please refer to the excerpt in French."

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"On the night of June the 5th, we gave them a hot meal because we knew it'd be the last one they'd have for a long time."

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"The excerpt in English is not available at this time. Please refer to the transcript in French."

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"You see these ships being exploded through gunfire, that was quite an experience."

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"All along the Gaspé coast all the way to Newfoundland, you were in complete darkness. During the war, the houses located all the way down the Gaspé coast had to cover their windows. The submarines were torpedoing the ships only 5-10 miles offshore."

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"There was a lot of targets but both sides were doing cruel things. There’s nothing sweet or easy about war and there’s nobody fighting clean wars anymore."

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"In August 1942 Montgomery’s forward forces had brought Rommel’s army to a halt. RAF bombers, British submarines, had sunk 47 supply ships totaling 169,000 tons. All except two had been a direct result of decrypts from BP."

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"There’s got to be a better way than war. War seems to be no solution. And we’ve seen wars, many wars. What has it solved?"

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"During the previous campaigns we had lost at least 50% of our experienced flying personnel; some had been shot down, while others had finished their tours."

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"One night, I was awakened by a thunderous noise. I was laying in water. Had we been torpedoed? The ship was leaning far to the starboard, and a wall of water shot by our cabin door"

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"The women had never had jobs like this before and we wanted to prove ourselves. I think that’s part of it. And the men accepted us."

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"You never hear a shell with your number on it. Those with the whine and the bang are marked for someone else."

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"The story, however, is not about how the Canadians were defeated. It’s about how they fought and how they behaved against impossible odds."

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"Well, by the time we left, we drank too much wine. And we bought some eggs and we bought some more wine to take, and we decided to buy a goose."

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