Recent content by Jacktheknife

Hello Everyone, The brotherhood has grown smaller by one, Jack passed away on Thursday. At 1:00 AM in the morning, I have a last letter from Jack; He left it to be put on the boards, when he passed. From Jack. I have been feeling very poorly of late, and I know that my time has come to an end...

Hi everyone An update for all of you,parkie is doing great.he has the use of his hands back,he can stand ,but he can’t walk yet,His son bought him a brand new motorized scooter,so he’s all over the hospital grounds,(until they locked it up till he goes home). Late Friday night they brought in a...

Jack here.thanks all for your support of me.I had some trying times of recent.We will write again.I have spent a few days writing a entry for parkie,this being an important day in his life, Trial by Fire. For parkie May 23 1944   Having successfully broken the Gustav line. Allied troops now ...

I felt that since one of our own on the army.ca site participated in the assault,I would write this for him. may 23 1944 Having successfully broken the Gustav line. Allied troops now  must breach the Hitler line, The final obstacle lying between the Allies and the Rome.May 23 1944 is the day...

nadine No,your grandfather,wouldn't have been at Juno.but he would have either known these boy's,or of them,he would have been with buster,but,buster can't speak of the war at all.we have tried,he just can't do it.No.I wasn't at cassino.parkie was near there,he has the Italian star also.He has...

Nadine. Yes, she had a strong will. To be able to look after everyone, six of them were older, but she had five kids that were all about six and under, and one set of twins in there. One of the hardest things I had to do when I came back, I had to go and see Mrs.kyle.Her son had joined up around...

many knew morse code.it was a way of communicating if the radio was unable to transmitt voice,By using on-off a person could communicate. When we got home we had whatever we wanted ,has long has it was moose meat and potatoes.parkies family was pretty hard up,but his sister was a very good...

Nadine We had a wireless walkie talkie, that the companies used to communicate with the headquarters, but we had people who’s job it was to operate them and to carry them because they were quite heavy, But they didn’t reach far, just a couple of miles, I think about 3- 4 miles if I remember...

Nadine In a war the size of that,who do you know to trust,If someone were to write a letter home and it said,for example.hi this is Fred , from  a certain Canadian regiment,I'm sitting in Paris right now. If the information fell into the wrong hands. Just a small misplaced word could be used to...

  A soldier could write home,if he had a moment to sit and write,some wrote at night if they had the paper,But writing at night was very risky,A sniper could see you,see a small light or movement and you would be dead.Paper was sometimes hard to come by.And letters were censored so badly,some...

If we couldn't make it to where they could feed us,we had emergency rations,Biscuits.chocalate.There was a tinned meat that we had, but they didn't really give that out for a one man ration,one can would be meant to feed two or three.I guess they call it spam.we use to ask what it was,the...

nadine Just slow down,and take your time,dear,there's no big rush.If this old guy can type with two fingers then you can type too,Right? Just pay attention and you'll be fine.

well,I suppose it is good to know about,that we learned that too much power in one man's hands can be a terrible thing.if he can get people to follow his ideas,it can be a dangerous thing. Hitler made sure that everybody knew of his hollow promises,he made every couple that got married own a...

nadine I did stay in some houses, in France,though many had no one living in them.Mostly though I slept on the ground rolled up in a sheet that was made from a kind of rubbery stuff. That's when we could sleep,The German's were always on us trying to push us back.so you sort of slept with one...

Nadine Yes,we can thank god,that he didn’t take over.god and a lot of very young boy’s,not  full grown men.Boy’s. We were no older than you are,when we faced them,I guess if we take a look at what they did in every place that they took over,That ,is what was waiting for all of us.They would have...