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The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e sd a y N o v e m b e r 10, 2004 - A 5 Naval veterans share war memories with students farm 80 miles away. "Canada had the third largest navy in the world, mostly volunteers like farmWhile members of the Burl-Oak boys who had never seen the ocean," Naval Veterans could relate to St. said Richardson. Hillrich painted an austere and often Thomas Aquinas students grim picture o f life with tales of powdered aboard ship, a relentlessly " The cost of the war milk and bad hygiene, the violent toll of World War was human life. Millions pitching and rolling envi ronment in which his sole II always darkened the and all for what? We're luxury was his pillow background of their talk. back at it again today. from home. "The cost of the war Crew stayed in the was human life. Millions, We never learn." same clothes for three and all for what?" Alex · Alex Bramson, weeks at a stretch, had Bramson said Tuesday. Naval veteran water only to drink and "We're back at it again lived on cereal, powdered today. We never learn." Fellow vet Ray Richardson said the milk and crackers. "It was a difficult life, but it was a reason their message sinks in is because many of the young people are roughly fun life," he said. "Would I do it again? the same age as when they signed up to You're dam right I would." This statement was made all the serve. more striking in light o f Richardson's "The kids are very interested in this," said Richardson, who lived in Long account of navy vessels protecting sup Branch when he joined the Canadian ply convoys to England during the pro Navy. "I'd never been any further than tracted (1939-1943) Battle o f the Streetsville, then I was halfway around Atlantic as German U-boat "wolfpacks" the world. It was quite an experience," circled in for the kill. Tactics included allowing convoys to he said. This included escorting landing craft pass overhead as they remained sub to Juno Beach on D-Day, where he wit merged, then surfacing in the Allies' nessed the cost of war that Bramson midst to attack. Fifty to 60 ships a month was an spoke of. average toll, said Richardson. "It was a terrible day," he added. Bramson, who served aboard a Ernie Hillrich, who served on a World War I destroyer (a "four-stacker," frigate after enlisting in 1942 as an 18he said), enlisted in 1941 at age 17. Like year old, recalled even the most innocu Richardson, he'd never been further ous moments with a clarity that illus from Montreal than his grandparents' trates how profoundly his entire experiO A K V IL L E BEAVER STAFF By Howard Mozel Alex B ram son of the B url-O ak Naval Vets with St. T hom as A quinas students Lisa A ndreana and Sean Flood as the vet erans shared th eir w ar-tim e experienc >with students. "To this day I've not touched any crept up the St. Lawrence. ence has been etched on his mind. "The Canadian war zone started 36 This included life below decks living pow dered m ilk, nor will I," he inches outside of Halifax," he said. in claustrophobic quarters with not only laughed. Danger was evier-present, however, "The war had come right to the doorstep his crewmates, but a deadly arsenal of and Bramson said life-jackets were con of Halifax, of Canada." ammunition. One lingering lesson of the war that "We were just one floating bomb," stantly worn since "you never knew all three men have built on over the when you were going to be hit." he said. If any of the students thought for a course of their lives is an acute under Bramson also spoke of hanging used teabags on clotheslines to dry for re-use, second that the war only transpired at a standing of responsibility, which they tossing clothes overboard in a tethered kit distance from Canada, Bramson had asked the students to also develop. That, they said, and a sense of cama bag to wash them and adding vanilla news for them: U-boats sunk many extract to powdered milk to "kill the taste." ships just off the east coast and even raderie with their peers. G L E N O A K S '2 ? y ^ ^ , T o w n w a n ts t o m o v e s lo w ly A n n o u n c i n g - a S p e c ia l N e w F a c ilit y D e d ic a t e d t o F a it h a n d F a m ily Glen Oaks is pleased to offer crypt spaces in the new Padre Pio Mausoleum... starting as low as $3,100.°° (C o n tin u e d fro m p a g e A 1 ) the Town should not remove any property from the interim control by-law. While the NOMI lawyer argued there's provision for the Town to renew the oneyear freeze for another year. Cash said a report is expected in March. The $75,000 study to be done while the by-law is in effect has already begun. Public workshops to be held this month are to be announced shortly. A staff report before council Monday said discussion was still ongoing with the new King's Christian Collegiate private Christian school, which had a major expan sion set to get underway this month -- an expansion that has been in the works for more than a year -- and planned for since the school opened in 2001. Other dissenters include the Vaishno Devi Hindu Temple that wants to build a meditation hall and Imperial Oil (ESSO) that wants to redevelop the northwest cor ner of Dundas Street and Trafalgar Road. The freeze was approved Sept. 13 and affects land abutting Trafalgar Road, Bronte Road; Dundas Street -- from Bronte Road to Ninth Line -- and the intersection of Bumhamthorpe Road West at Fourth Line. The by-law is to be in effect until Sept. 13, 2005 while the Town studies the four areas destined to be high-density, mixed-use areas geared to pedestrians and transit. Town planning director Peter Cheatley said it could take up to 30 years to build the area out. "The intent is to ensure the interim development of the lands will contribute to, and not constrain, the ultimate planned development and density," he reported. The moratorium affects development, but also means that nothing can be built there -- except portable classrooms, tem porary structures for special events, and anything meant for agricultural uses -- unless a property owner gets approval from the Town's Committee of Adjustment. 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