A Very Sad Picture

My group was about thirty two people. And I don’t know why I became in charge of that particular draft that was sent to Korea. We left Val Cartier, you know, after all getting equipped and so on and the shots and travelled to Edmonton where we had a reshooting exercise because somehow in the documents something was wrong so we had to restart the whole process and then flew to Vancouver from where we would fly to Tokyo. The one thing that struck us when we arrived in Korea was the desolation. We didn’t see too much of it but we saw some of it. In what you call the pipe line going to the front line we were also in military posts, establishments and so on. We didn’t see too much around but as we travelled from one place to another we could see… At that time the Korean people or the Korean peninsula had suffered, you know, up and down, up and down. That’s two up and downs and some places had been hit four times by the war. So you can imagine that some places were in rumbles. And the population even worse. The population was a question of extreme survival. It was a very, very sad picture.