Description
Nora Cook talks about the end of the war, and how tired everyone was. They got a leave, and she had the chance to go to Ireland, but decided to come home instead. Ms. Cook was treated like a hero when she came home, but felt that she had only done what everyone else had done. She was just glad to be home.
Nora B. Cook
Nora Cook was born in Ops Township (outside of Lindsay), Ontario. She graduated from nursing school and went on to enroll in the army as a nurse who endured a very long trip to England. She talks about the training in England, and how rigorous it was; but also how happy the nurses were to have had it, as they wouldn't have been able to handle the working conditions in France if they had not been so well prepared.
Transcript
At that time it was very tragic but I think once peace came everybody was so happy and we were just so glad to get out of it and get home and just try and forget about it you know. You just sort of, you know how you can if you want to really block something out of your mind you can really try, at least you try, you can't always do it but you do your best. So I think most of the people I knew did that, I don't know of anybody that had any emotional problems. You were talking about leave's and I had a leave to go to Ireland. I had had my plans made and this and that because we weren't as busy because things were sort of on ahead of us and ah it came through that peace was declared and of course we had a big celebration you know the patients that were in the hospital, everybody. And we were all just so happy and some of the people stayed around after but I didn't go to Ireland on my trip, I took the first boat home if I could. I remember being greeted when I came back and all my, like I, I think I told you, I have six sisters and a brother and all the relatives were there to greet me and I was a hero you know, oh you know, I was such a, but I didn't feel a hero basically. I didn't feel any kind of a hero at all. I just did what I was supposed to do you know. I think a hero does great things, I didn't do great things.