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Mr. Walsh offers some thoughts on why he was proud to serve.
Graham Walsh
Graham Walsh was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, on January 22, 1925. He was the third of seven children. His father worked in a steel mill, and made a bit extra selling coke, a smelting byproduct. His father died when he was seven, and Mr. Walsh and his brother worked odd jobs to help the family. He joined the local reserves when he was fifteen and two years later, at the age of seventeen, enlisted for overseas service. Once in England, he was overlooked for Italian deployment and immediately volunteered for Normandy. Mr. Walsh served from France to post-war Germany, via the liberation of Holland, all with the Royal Regiment of Canada. He was fortunate to survive three wounds while in action.
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I was pretty young and I was looking for adventure I guess. It wasn’t until I was in action for about two or three weeks that the whole thing started to gel into what I’m into... Yes I think it was certainly worth it. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. We all owe our country something. We all have an obligation I believe, and I know my brother went to the Korean War and if I had of been younger I would have went with him again. Because I believe what we have is really, really sacred and we should keep it and we should uphold it.