Being Aware of War

In ‘39 and in the 40's like that, you know, we know there wasn’t too many radios around and stuff like that. And I remember in town this guy’s store, he would have a radio and he would have his, like model radio, like big, would be sitting out and then everybody would stand around and listen at the news and a lot of the men that was old enough started joining the service. And then at first, when it first started, they turned black people down. They didn’t want any. That was in ‘39. Now I joined in ‘41 but we had no problem, that’s when they put me into Transport. They just give us a paper with the initials on it, like mine was RCASC, Royal Canadian Army Service Corp so some guys say, oh yes you’ll be driving vehicles and all this stuff. I said, “I had never been inside a vehicle for a drive let alone drive one.”