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They fought for peace We liked one crusty World War II veteran might be central theme In distuning Remembrance Day He replied it sometimes forgotten that we were fighting or peace A moot point perhaps In one the many elusive statements of oar time thai makes no sense yet at the same time make all the sense the world Thanks in part to President Reagan unbending attack speeches threats and declarations Canada as a nation become more aware of our vulnerability In the event of a nuclear attack peace marchers and antiwar demonstrators line the streets of major capital of the western world Canada veterans of previous wars remain la background forgo ten Remembrance Day Is a chance propel u back to another era to recall the sacrifices that were made by citizens who fought for their country who died tor It country Although Canada baa not Korea fat the the memories do linger Even now a majority of citizens have friends or relatives who were touched by war Entire lifestyles were by war years young men dreams were wiped out their children left without fathers The sacrifice the strife torment of war is something we never would want our children to experience We have our veterans to remind us their pain of their fallen comrades numbering lu dead for all of the wars Canada has fought In bat let us not dwell on war peace movements across Canada let us remember that our veterans fought for peace Let us all work towards that goal Speak not of battles lost or won but war but glory our glory and remember those who fought them the glory of our purpose Speak not Tor you Speak not of death but war remember the dead Speak not of Mam Laurence Vermilion Alberta Legion 197 remember their fallen brothers Lest We Forget question what does day mean to you Born In 1902 Morris of Acton has 1 ved through two world wars I was 16 when the first World War finished he told The Herald Sunday as the Acton Remembrance Day parade was behind the Bower Street post office In 1920 after the war had ended and he was old enough to he jo the Scots Guard Mr Morris memories of war arc not pleasant I vc had a brother lied In the first world war and 32 relations disappeared In Croydon England Just south of London he said I don want to see anoth war Remembrance Day means everything It brings back a lot of memories bad and good to Tom of Acton You think of some of the boys you normally don think about he said I was five years and nine months overseas Mr col left Guelph with other men Coming back there were only 12 Not all of them died in the war however he added I argue with these people who say sit back and talk peace You can t do that he said Peace Is a wonderful thing and anything wonderful In this world you and I hove to fight for It War just happens Mr and it better to be prepared for It than not This was the first parade he a marched with Ihe on men Previous Re membrance Day parad he been in the Acton tizen Band It means that I can all the fellows lying in France that haven reached years old Mr John Sen or said when asked what means to him He he landed overseas on Day fight In Normandy France We would like to honor the memory of our fallen comrades John McHugh We don want to see anoth er Mr McHugh was sent to North Africa Italy France and Germany In the Second World War We want to stay in a state of preparedness though he said We feci that the best way to stay out of another war yes remain strong James McCulloch of Acton said being a democracy means Canadians can have philosophical ideas about unilateral ma JOHN JOHN McilUGH Korea tank crews saw the destruction In many Canadian history books the Korean War to dismissed In a cursory way but our country bullon was far from small There were military person 312 were killed 1557 were Injured Georgetown probably had soldiers represented there all old said Bruce Collins a troop sergeant in the Korean War responsible for four tank crews Two locals Ron Edmonds and Ken Norton died in battle serving w th Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry he said BELL COLI1NS me Korean War differed from World War It because he battles in be far cast weren as mobile In Korea the lines were static with patrols going back and forth from the parallel he said Mr Collins stayed in the Canadian army World War A crew commander of a tank in Lord Strath- conns Hone regiment be left for Korea in 1992 leaving behind his wife Virile and young daughter It was a different experience I t miss but I volunteer again ho says grinning The country very beautiful but It was pretty well smashed up by the time we got there he said south Koreans were good people honest as the day is long they had suffered tremendously he BELLY WOUND It was particularly disheartening for Mr Collins as a young father to see Korean children in various states of deformity In recalls a ycur old boy with a weeping belly wound from shrapnel scoop to pick up a cigarette butt and use the tobacco the wound On leave In Japan Mr ColDns visited Nagasaki he site of an atomic bomb explosion six years before There was Just a pile of rubble with miles of radioactive land fenced off You could still smell the stench of the dead he said As support for the Infantry the men manning the tanks had their share of hair raising stories One time Mr Collins had been given a replacement lank with a water cooled engine One of the crew forgot to check Ihe coolant and Ihe five member tank crew became stranded In the of a battlefield close to dusk Mr Collins eventually scrambled to the nearest rice paddle and refilled tank with water SCARY Another scary moment occurred when Chinese infantry came and Irled harass the armored regiment The commander ordered the tanks to fire against each other to scare off the intruders Mr Collins was injured In battle hi by artillery while In a bunker near his lank He was sent home on the same plane with Steve Clayton who was also severely injured Mr Collins has had operations on his legs but he still walks with a limp Boulevard resident Dave Bell Joined the Canadian armed forces at age IS after serving In the reserve army In Toronto He was working for at the time but he decided to try the army as a permanent profess After training In Cut he went to Fort Lewis Washington where he joined Canadians receiving intensive Instruction Sailing for Japan In March Mr Bell was assigned to the transport company where he was transferred to Korea He hauled ammunition Into the front lines tog road mines and American planes dropping Napalm close by Eves though there ore still tensions between North Korea and Korea Mr Bell feel the south remain noncommunist more than the south Vlotnamese did during the Vietnam war Mr Bell has no regrets about his experience even that be should have made the army his career Veterans march past the Glen Williams cenotaph Sunday Our country needed us to protect our way of life I be lying if I sold I understood why Fred Harrison enlisted years ago may never understand what would drive a man to leave a loving wife and two infant children risk his life in a war half way round the world defending his Ideals I d be lying if I said I could accept or Justify son killed in action protecting the Canadian way in Lebanon Grenada or Southeast Asia But can see that there a some of ironic If not downright tic connection here I cant help feeling that it because Fred Harrison enlisted years ago that I won t lose my son on some foreign battlefield Remembrance Day always leaves me feeling a 1 tile confused a little shameful and a Utile sad DROVE AMBULANCE Harrison young enlisted with the famous Highlanders in June of He drove ah ambulance at the front when the Allies Invaded Sicily in He was decorated for action beyond the call of duty for rescuing wounded soldiers from the battlefield By GERRY TIMBERS under heavy fire Tut as Harrison Is known to family friends and fellow members of the local Legion Branch 120 talks about the death and destruction of World War In an almost business like fact way He doesn t blink when he tells you of the buddies that died beside him in a field in Italy You lost friends and you felt it internally but you went on That was the ballgame Harrison said to me During that moment of alienee on Remembrance Day 111 think about what I went through and who I went through it with Illthlnkabouttheones that dldn t return I often thank God you know that I wasn t one of the ones that I return DIFFERENT PLACE The world was a very different place In 1939 That how Harrison explained his actions to me There was never any question he said that he would do his duty If need be he would die for his country Our country needed us Harris on explained I could tell by the way he said It thai he dldn t expect 1 understand but that he expected I would accept he had done the right and honorable thing My country needed volunteers to protect our way of life the best in world It was expected that every man that was physically able would protect his country That was the statement that left me a little confused It was next Harrison said though that left and a little sad My God when It ended I said myself Thais the last of it For ever The first trace of emotion became evident In his voice But the way they re talking Jessie Hayes the war bride Staff Comment was declared ended The bridal bouquets were peas and fern and the ribbons were fibreglass ribbons from the The honeymoon only lasted three days with Gear having to return to Holland May and his next leave not until the end September Jessie kept The day Jessie Hayes got married there were streamers across the streets bonfires blazing on the tops hills and much singing of songs The war was over May 11 she 11 have been married years Gear Hayes Georgetown Jessie was the eldest of three daughters when she married the Canadian with the Lome Scots From a little town In Scotland called she came and lived in the tiny Canadian village of Glen Williams where she raised six children together with Gear We met Nov 9 1941 she smiled referring to a scrap of white paper on which was scribbled all the important dates of so long ago compiled with the on the buses and applied helpofGea come to Canada everything her eyes crinkled Sitting in the dining room of McGibbon Hotel thai has been named Jessie for her Jessie chatted about the war years and her arrival In Canada as a war bride I was a bus conductress then collecting money from those who rode the buses Jessie recalled It was a Job that a man had done before Wo had to work a lot of shifts because there wasn anybody else to do them she said Once darknesa came the thick black blinds would be pulled down over the windows of the buses travelling to and from Glasgow and the ron depol Jessie had quit school when she was 13 and went to work In a large home where she learned to cook scrub floors and set tables She was doing this kind of work when she was put on the buses Gear ended up In because of his friendship with Jessie settled house in Glen Williams and cousin a husband On leave the two Gear was working at Paper soldiers came for a visit and things Heather and Peter were born clicked Jessie felt homesick I remember he was very quiet think it was lust to let my He was my type because I was quiet parents see my kids They dldn hove too We got on good Jessie said We grandchildren she said used to go to the shows on his leaves or Gear put bouse on mortgage and the dances packed me and two kids on the My parents really liked Gear train to Halifax It a long from the very beginning He was Just Journey the guy Jessie said Her dad was a Scotland the homesick plowman In a castle and during wore off and after a month Jessie wnrwasahomeguard responsible for was writing her husband asking him to the water works bring her home The Lome Scots were sent to Sicily am my children have seen their in June and It was from there grandparents I took them all there Jessie received her engagement ring a Jessiesald pleased I went home last ring bought by Gears mother in year and my dad died at the age Canada and sent to him In Sicily They never wanted loconn visit They The couple were married In Scot t like the airplanes land in IMS three days after tho war a long time resident of Canada now with children nearly all grown up and six grandchildren besides Mrs Hayes has no regrets about being a war bride and becoming a Canadian It been a good life I ve enjoyed it and I can say 1 was ever sorry for coming she said EDITOR NOTE This the tint of three articles by Anl log war brides In Halloa Hills iSA Bombadier missing overseas Next time we see Sgt Kemshead In town we expect he will these new badges distinct for the Canadian Parachute Corps Abble recently enlisted with the para troopers and will soon be on his way to Georgia for training LG James Bud has been promoted to the rank of 1-ance- He Is stationed In New Another district young man W O George A Moloxzl of Acton has given his life While with the overseas His death marks the third casualty among Acton boys on active service although George was the first native born to make the supreme sacrifice Seaman Alex Mackle Is spending his furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs J MackleofTerraColta Seaman saw action in Algeria and is a survivor of a tanker torpedoed miles from Halifax and after being In ihe water for five hours was rescued 1S44 Official word was received on Monday by Mrs James that her husband Flight Sergeant William James Louth is missing after operating overseas has been taxing part in ralds over Germany and enemy held territory for some time and has thirty trips to his credit He was a Bom bad er on a Halifax Bomber In the famous Iroquois Squa over Berlin along with nine other Canadian Squadrons One of Georgetown various boys to take English brides since going to England and Ihe second one of his family to do so William Arncst of the Canadian army was married to Mora May Burgess It was a Joyous homecoming for Joe Stamp on Tuesday when he arrived back in Georgetown after having been in the front lines of the Italian campaign with Ihe Princess Pal Light Infantry since last September He said fighting amid dirt and blood and filth was beyond our comprehension Most of his pals were killed at IMS A third Georgetown home was saddened In as many weeks when news was received Monday that John WiUlaro Hemphill had died of wounds In Italy Two days previously his wife had received the news that he was dangerously wounded suffering multiple shell fragment wounds In the abdomen as well as compound of both Ihighs He leaves his wife Ihe former Norma McCartney and two small daughters Viola and Betty Nelson Handy Glen Williams was among those mentioned in a news despatch sent from Italy which appeared In a Toronto newspap er last week He was with a company of Ihe Irish Regiment which crossed the Lam one River in assault boats and rafts taking the Germans by surprise a night attack Handy has been overseas since 1941 originally belonging to the Lome Scots and has been In Italy for over a year Word was received this morning that Shaw serv with the infantry in Holland Is missing presumed killed in action Pte Shaw a popular Georgetown merchant before enlisting was proprietor of Shaw Feed Grain and Seed store He had been overseas less than six months Wars tragedy struck another Georgetown home again this week when word was received Wednesday that Bill Kay had died of wounds received In action Feb Only recently Bill received special mention for bravery when his small group raided a canal in Belgium and took German prisoners Vets support Cruise testing in Canada Talk to veterans about disarms If anything happens we nave to be talks and the Cruise missile and prepared said Harry Bottoms a you 11 virtually get a unified answer member of the Georgetown Legion Most agree they 11 not see total We re a member an association disarmament In their lifetime Support NATO and they need us do a Job of the Cruise and testing in Canada Is Mr Bottoms believes we 11 never justified they say see disarmament lake place because Bruce a member of Legion there is too much money and loo much Branch 120 in Georgetown remembers politics involved I think our new England Neville Chamberlain government will bring In a stronger Those who pushed for peace gave in army he said to strength he said An adversary If you want to prevent war you wont start a war if they have no have to be prepared lor It said Ernie chance of winning he said Cruise testing in Canada Is justified he said Disarmament In his and like many different weapons lifetime is unlikely he said NATO countries nave to pull together As long guy over there does for peace but Tho Cruise missile Is something we you have to be able to trust him sold must have for protection says veteran Bill Colier Harry Brown People who have never Said Bob Burns As long been In a war don know what It sail Russia exists against disarms about he said lmi firm believer Without the United States we re you have to be on guard against the nothing It s our responsibility to test Russians he said the Cruise as a member of NATO the HERALD Home Newspaper ol Hills Established A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario PAUL J Publisher and General Manager DAVID ROWNEV BOB Editor Advertising Manager PHONE Second Ma I Number