Lebanon A Wealthy Country

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Lebanon A Wealthy Country

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It's a very smart country, the people are very nice, the people are nice in Egypt as well. The lifestyle I think is what made the difference. They were wealthier, better off, better fed, better dressed. When you see a ten year old boy coming up the street and wanting to sell you a wrist watch - what kind do you want and he's got a whole bunch of stolen wrist watches on his wrist, that's how he makes his living. The food wasn't bad, we had our own cooks but we had to buy local, and a friend of mine, no names... he liked his vegetables, we all do, and when he found out how they grew them out there and what they used as fertilizer, he wouldn't eat another vegetable while he was there. Because they used to come in and if you know what a honey bucket is, portable toilets, and they'd come in through our camps and they'd empty these into these big carts with their donkeys and out they'd go and this would be spread into fields as fertilizer and then those vegetables would grow and then they would sell them back to us and when my chum found this out, and I guess most of us felt about the same way but it's all education, what you learn. You learn something every day.

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Mr. Floyd provides a description of the lifestyle of the Lebanese people believing it to be much wealthier than Egypt.

Murray Floyd

Mr. Floyd was born January 10, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario. After receiving his education, Mr. Floyd became employed with a bus company. He later married and together he and his wife raised 4 daughters. Mainly for financial reasons, Mr. Floyd decided to join the military and enlisted in the Army. He took his basic training in Val Cartier and accepted his first posting to Vancouver with 11 Company having an occupation of Furniture & Effects Clerk. In 1964, Mr. Floyd traveled to Beirut, Egypt where he witnessed a great culture shock. His career would give him 2 tours to Egypt and later on in his career traveled to England to serve as clerk in logistic operations. At the time Mr. Floyd moved his family to England which proved to be a positive experience for all. Mr. Floyd retired from the military and resides in Toronto, Ontario.

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