Our Featured Speakers
Here are some of our Memory Project
Speakers
January 13, 2010 |
By Butler | “At Shearwater, I was the only WREN in the hospital there, and it was my duty to go out on, if a WREN was out on a job somewhere out in the boondocks and took sick, they would fly me out in a helicopter to pick her up and bring her back. I also delivered a baby for someone, one of the servicemen’s/the officer’s wives, which shocked me and made be decide I didn’t want to have any children. But I changed my mind.”
January 13, 2010 |
By Bernston | “ I was raised in a small farm community out in Saskatchewan, and back in about 1955, I noticed an advertisement that said, "Join the Air Force, become a pilot, go to university and get paid fifty dollars a month, all at the same time…"
January 13, 2010 |
By Peate | “We lived in holes in the ground which we dug ourselves, called hootches, that were very cold in winter. They were infested with lice, with rats, with bugs, and they were usually waterlogged in the bottom.”
January 13, 2010 |
By Haliburton | “...I always say, I think I'm the only girl whose mother told her to join up, and that wasn't because she wanted to get rid of me, but she was a very adventurous woman….She said to me one day that she just didn't understand what was the matter with her daughter; that if she'd had a chance, she would have joined up the very first day.”
January 13, 2010 |
By Rimer | “… the next day, we grouped together after the battle to assess the damages and regrouping was a mistake. A German spotter nearby with wireless directed fire on us. The troop I was in of three tanks, were destroyed. I am the only one alive.”