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Description
Mr White recalls one particularly sad Christmas. One he'll never forget.
Transcription
On Christmas Day they brought up, I think it was pork, roast pork and gravy and mashed potatoes and a bottle of beer and fed us, gave us that. I understand that some of the Seaforth were able to, a company at a time would go back out to this church and have a warm Christmas dinner, but we were not able to do that, the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. And my position was up in a roof of a house, like up in the attic of a house. And I had knocked a brick out, I was doing observation up there, and I'd knocked this brick out and was observing the back square. And the German soldier come out and I had to shoot him on Christmas Day. That bothered me so much. You know I don't mind, didn't mind shooting the German, but on Christmas Day it just didn't seem to be right. So..
Interviewer: But that was your duty.
That was my duty, well it could have been him or me so, you know you have to do what you have to do, but no matter how sad it is so...