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Korean war veteran By MAGGIE HANNAH Herald la If writer Sunday will mart the six tielh occasion on which ex have turned out to remember the attendees of their comrades during world wars Remembrance Day a lion of the first World War a ending on Day 11 1918 since then has come to Involve the servicemen of World War II the Korea con and several other win In later years George saw service in Korea but doean t associate Remembrance Day with him durins that war tor him Remembrance Day recalls World War I vets like his father who died during a poisonous gas attack in 1333 don think of us he told The Herald this week I think people like my Dad on Remembrance Day Somehow 1 It with the First War vets Of course some times I think of the people I knew who died in Korea but not at this tune For me Remembrance Day is special Iv for World War I Korean War dead are listed on Royal Canadian Legion however andslor of what happened to United Nations troops wiio there between and ore less familiar than those of World War I and World War II events TWELVE YEARS Mr was part of the first British detachment sent directly to in October 1050 He had enlisted a year earlier because he I ad no clear Idea of what exactly he wonted by way of a career and the army looked like a good place lo start out while he made up his mind In those days you enlisted them In active service and the other seven in reserve That was the minimum period As a member of the Royal Mr and the approximately troops who sailed from Liver were part of the special Commonwealth Brigade made up of British Canadian Australian New Zealand South African and Indian troops Mr was part of a team which recovered damag ed or deserted vehicles We know what to expect when we arrived Mr sold Things changed during the wo weeks or so of our passage and the Yanks I pushed the Commies backover the border Into North Korea When we put Into the port at the Yanks were telling us to go on back home because I he thing was all over The new arrivals picked up heir equipment however headed north as ordered and before long he North Korean were pouring back across the border I don remember haw long we were settled In before it happened he said All remember the organized chaos as we scattered south again COLD Mr memories of Korea centre more around the extreme cold than around the fighting I have to remember how dangerously we lived then he added with InuRh We used to carry gallon tanks of high octane gas on our cry vehicles as spores In cose we got stuck somewhere away from our supply We rigged up a rubber hose from the tank into our tent put a piece of copper tube in the rubber hose and clamped so that the gas dripped Then took a sardine can of sand It hissed and danced away and I dont know how wc never burned the lent down or blew up the tanks We were really living dangerously but it seemed cosy when d bank the tent up with snow and get that fire burning Wp shell casings cut for a chimney and piece of metal cut to protect the hole through the tent Id never risk it today The heat and rain were just about as hard to tolerate as the cold Mr too were a large part hie in v there were the sanitation carts drawn by oxen he said There was a cart parked any village you went into and find the women carrying to tht carl IKorcin cooking i different too and they do it in open pots over charcoal fires so the smell drifts out They use an awful lot of garlic In Urn They also cat a lot of fish which they hang outside their huts to dry Put those two together with the tlon system and it a smell you jus don I forget DIRT FLOORS Although poorer Koreans lived in dirt floor hub cons ingot only one room the more affluent ones had homes divided into rooms sliders covered with net paper to form doon and highly pol shed wooden floors In their homes he recoiled He found their heating system Ingenious A pit was dug undir the house In which fire was lit Then led from the pit out under the floor to let the heat into each area I don I know why the places I burn down but seemed to work he chuckles Asked whether narrow capes and dingcrous lions were commonplace Mr recalled owing a of recovered vehicles bock when the recovery vehicle he was driving fl aver and he hod o Jump to Another incident was promp ted by orders to find a vehicle and then reach a destination following map instructions The men located the vehicle they were to pick up but had trouble decipher ing their directions so they could tell one hill from the We pulled up on this hill to sil and figure out exactly when we were and where we were going he remembered and tins little voice right us told us get the so and so out of there We looked down and were right on lop of a couple of soldiers dug into the hill in a hurry I can assure Mr remembers as a land of rice paddles and hills I think every hill In the place had a number given it he says It wis like kids playing king of the hill The ones with the highest lull had best command over a valley and so on lull seemed then We lean lo we could put against side of our recovery hide for shelter but infan trymen just dug into he side of hills like moles Mr considers service good way for young people to train for a career he follow up on his own training as a mechanic when ho left the service He is now in maintenance with day Inns I didn mind going to Korea when I was called he said there were a lot of men who did Half the men we sent were called up from the reserves and were very They were called up Expansion approved for area business Tticlownplanningbojrdhas endorsed a proposal expand Aula Body of Acton subject several conditions aimed a preventing the business from taking an a wrecking yard nature The board lost Tuesday nigh offered no objections owner Mike Lovrins lion before the Niagara Escarpment Commission NFC councillors were invited I comment but suggested that a six foot high solid board fence should be erected along the Highway site northwest boundary The board also stipulated that the total number of vehicles both indoors and outdoors should no exceed and hat the local vat Ion Authority should be consulted regarding any plans or new buildings or the place ment of fill on the site The poppy has been chosen at a symbol of remembrance veterans of World War I and World War George turns out for the Remembrance Day parade usually he says but for him It a time to remember I- War vets Illy- his father not more recent like himself ifcratd photo bee needed men most of them had been through pari of World War A lol of them had just nicely got established back with their families or started a business and sudden ly they got told they hud so many weeks to get things in order and report for duty A lol of them were very bitter Then loo some of had pretty experiences with Koreans already and just soon shoot them all as go in there to help them Japan occupied Korea for years prior lo World War know men In Japai esc prison had Korean Some of thorn jeally hited the I NATIONS Mr also recalls talk about ho the League of had fallen through In 1330s and speculation as lo whither he United Nations would be any more successful than Its predecessor he didn mind to Korea Mr says he was much more of tht reserve troops bitterness when he got not in that he mglih be needed back in active service for Suez I d just gotten married and my rcgul lime was up hi says I told Belly I thought I d just disappear so they call me In again Bull didn of course and I never illy back Into active Mr his wife Hetty and their four dauhl to Canada In 1964 settling in Li mi ho use years later He enjoys golf and darts and to the Royal Canadian Lemon Branch 127 Word Partner bartered 103 Mam Street North Acton Ontario DIAMOND NOVEMBER IS DIAMOND MONTH A KERNS 25 I Ill I IN SI Ml V 111 MARKET welcome Horn For Sale SAXE 8772219 4531111 THE OLD DURHAM STATION O LICENCED RESTAURANT on this three acre property tilled R Din no 0 look with contact John EXECUTIVE DREAM to Toronto A Toronto on THIS NOTHING TO DO OUT 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