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Hello, I would like to try and continue writing more, or at least speaking of the war if anyone would like to read of my experiences overseas, some of you have been following since we started writing this and I appreciate that you find the story interesting. I’m sorry that I can’t be more...

Boy! that's a good one, farmers with guns against a highly trained military force.can you imagine.what's next ? Well, gotta go slop the pigs and polish my gun!                                                                                                       A.C.(parkie)                    ...

I don't suppose their could be too many parkie's in Italy during the war,at least not with a tall guy named Joe. Boy that takes me back a few years.Yes I know the answer to that,you can personal message me on here.

I thank everyone for their well wishes,I feel much better,lesson I learned, some sleeping dog's should be left where they lay. It wasn't so much the rescued worker's that set me off, it was the group for which they worked,when they stated that the illegal occupation of Iraq was the root cause...

I regret to have to inform everyone,I can't continue with  dad's war diary,We were doing well ,until the entry that contained the event with the farmhouse,whatever happened there it has made a dramatic change in his state of mind.I noticed that entry's did not coinside with his...

Parkie here I wondered If someone would read between the line's of the letter I put up.Can you bloody imagine someone " I'm so glad that no one killed any of the lunatics that were going to chop my head off.Good ,god how much more sit on the fence can you get.maybe you can have them over for...

for Joe. he was a hell of a nice big fella,came from down in  southern manitoba, The same day of the heavy mortar attacks. next morning snipers in the trees on the ridge are picking off men has men are trying to care for the wounded and get them out to where they can be tended to ,you...

Near ortona That night I remember,like it was yesterday,all day German's have been strafing us heavily,Imean so bloody heavy it was a wonder there was air to breath for all the damm lead in the air.Men are gettting blown to bit's from the heavy rounds the german's are using,You thank christ for...

When Dad went to bed last night him and Pattie were talking about the people demonstating against the war on terrorism and how the hell can you demonstrate against the war .Toting your dam signs in yout three piece suits, and you take the free speech that the soldier fights for and you throw it...

Yes,definately a statement about the army,give them your full support,                                                                                                     A.C.(parkie)

I have been doing that soldier's story so long,The old soldier needs to vent a bit.I'm mad has hell and ready to do battle. Get up,Get up! Enemy troop movement has been reported to the south.Their advancing on our position, a breach of our left line is imminent. At 0600 hrs a hearty...

The following letter was posted from England July 1940.It was sent and delivered.In 1995 at a family reunion she handed him the letter and the two just cried and held each other for almost a half hour.It made me think about the sacrifices that families had to make during the war and just how...

I want to apologize to everyone for the episode with the farm house,A little intervention on my part would save some having to read thing's like that, and the pain that it inflicted on my father bringing this out of the recesses of his mind.war is war, but the killing of innocent's is a very...

Parkie here we're back .Italy two bloody weeks of this,I can remember Joe saying.we were sitted along the road leading to ortona.ortona was perhaps 5-10 kms up the road.We only eat at night ,the flour they have been using has been filled with Bug's about 2-3 inches long with long feelers you...

We have had to pause,unknowingly we slipped into something that perhaps skould have been left buried.He is willing to continue,please, a few hours to settle.                                                                                                                             A.C.(parkie)

Hello Having being In Holland during the liberation,I would like to say,I have never felt more welcome by anyone than I did in the netherlands in 45.                                                                                                           A.C.(parkie)

We have received E-mails from some who are wondering if I served at a certain battle site or if I may have known what happened at one fixed battle,please keep in mind that hindsight is much different when it comes to events in the past.for us going through italy there was nothing to really tell...

Had to think on this one,boy,you guys are going to get your 85 years worth out of this old noggin'.I don't want to look to one sided on this, If you take a prisoner,He is generally considered bound to the same rules you have,in your Head?Am I right? name,rank,number,nothing more.And get back to...

time for a change. from diary may 1940  England yesterday was very quiet,this morning,large numbers running every direction. everyone on full alert,no one knows what was happening.can hear explosion's from across the channel.Spitfire's coming back with little more than wings left.some not at...

Good lord give me the strength. near the moro. Boy we kicked their rear ends good at that one.some of the lad's had enough of sitting waiting for something to happen.somewhere off to the right one of the boy's gets up and strolls right straight up through the german line.oh no.some of the boy's...