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the first Canadian tank went by. It ended a childhood nightmare. A nightmare of having my father go into hiding and us children being interrogated about his whereabouts, about seeing neighbours dragged away to gas chambers; about cold and hunger, about hiding under school desks from falling bombs, about forever listening to trucks stopping at our front door... Then... freedom, peace, bread again, and - heavenly luxury - butter on it. A normal life growing up without all that misery. Due to what? Due to a whole generation of young men from a faraway country -Canada - thousands of whom gave their lives to give us life, normal life, beautiful life. Don't ask me ever again..."for what?" I know too well for what. It's for the greatest gift of all; life itself. I am eternally grateful." So ended her letter. After the unveiling, I went back to my book - The Nightmare Years. (James Emmerson, a Lancaster bomber pilot with 424 Sqn, Skipton-on-Swale, spent 41 years as a Toronto newspaperman, before retiring in Brampton in 1987.) -Airforce, 1988 ESQUESING HISTORICAL SOCIETY SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS Wed. Nov. 13 1991 The Lome Scots, Halton's Military Heritage! Rev. Rick Ruggle will share 150 years of Esquesing's military history. The speaker will be Honorary Colonel E. H. Conover, CD. GEORGETOWN ARMOURY, Georgetown Park, 7:30 p.m. Wed. Dec. 11 1991 The Herald - Covering the Home Front for 125 Years! The Esquesing Historical Society will honour the Halton Herald, Georgetown Herald, and the Halton Hills Herald, which has served the Georgetown area for 125 years. Garfield McGilvray, Miles Gilson and Dave Hastings will recall their days at the Herald. KNOX CHURCH, Georgetown, 7:30 p.m. 2