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"Golly, 'pad, are you ever' old!`
This was my, son's comment when
he learned. the other day that. I'd'
been born in '1920, just 'a couple
of years afterWorld • War 1..
You'd have thought.:it was . im-
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rtnediately. following the Gay
Nineties, to. ; hear, his tone.
There is Airily onecomfort,
as the .'years rush' by. One's age'
values change conveniently: When
you are, X10, anybody .' over 21 is.
Middle-aged. By the .time you
are 15, you realize • that people
aren't middle-aged until • they're.
•30 -or more. When you ' are 25,
-.middle-age begins.. at
when you' -:are 40, you
in the knowledge that
.really 1.b'e in middle.
you:•are about .55.-
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40. -And
are serene
You won't
age until.
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y Smrle. •
This disparity . in point' of view
is brought home tome with some
force ,when' .I'm talking -to 'teen-
agers; at .school...One day we saw
a film on the history . of flight.
It` contained some shpts of aerial
combat in. World •War 1.
.Later, . I remarked jokingly
that .I'd enjoyed seeing some of
the 'old 'aircraft I'd flown myself
in ,those • days.:. They didn't get.
file •joke.. ' They really'' thou,ght
I'd been: a World War, 1 pilot.
This would make. :me at,. least
60. 'I asked then. sharply 'kow o1d
they: thought , I was::One .Parti-
cularly
parti-cularly 'sweet ' girl in Grade 10
said:, "You don't look it, . sir.!
That's why a •lot. of :us World_
War II, veterans, who, keep think-
ing the war Was justa few years
,ago, should pull our heads out of
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.the sande
Wemay reel that we're , still
' practically . gay young blades,
but we should realize that a
whole new generation has grown
up, to ' whom our war is as . re
mote 'as the Crimean War was to
us, .'at the samage.
Just the same, it's . fun to look
'back. About,' the same` day my
Son • was. relegating ''me tothe
horseless carriageera, my Baugh..
ter, while prowling' around for
soarnething •to read, came across.
my old prisoner -of -war log book.
':She• went, through it in . one sit
king, From time to time' she -look-
ed at. me curiously, cocked ' an
eyebrow, and read on. -
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I'd forgotten what was in that
book. But .I found out. Young,
Kim went to her mother with it
and said, "Look at this Mom."
' She ,was. pointing at two. pages
j of photographs, of striking young
ladies.. •
I ` I. had them in my walletwhen
shot down,;` and pasted them in
I the book '' under the youthful,
silly,but` harmless heading, My
Comforters.
' • Despite'' the fact. that 'Some . of;
those girls are . now' doubtless on
the verge of grandmotherhood ;-
the. ' Old .Lady, gbtShe ga
sore: ve'
the 'snapshots Rorie' long, searing
1' look, gave: me another,: sneered
"Oh, weren't• `you • the .charmer:",;
and • ..flo unced', • offs' to finish her.
washing., 'Kim 'looked plleased.
' . I decided 'to take a look through
the old book myself, and spent, a
thoroughly ehj;oyable Sour,,, like
an old'. maid With her faded rib-
bons and ::her dance' programs. • It
took° me • 'from the ,dreariness 'of
early April,; from the Morass of
rhiddle class domesticity.; back .to
a. time when,1• was young and.
.tough, completely •'.irresponsthle,:
and slightly' ,wicked..
There: were .. the riarnies, ;many
•
of them .:forgotten, of themotle;y.
• crew in trey barracks: I' -wonder.
what Jannie de Wet'of"South At
rica thinks :of Canada these days?
Is: Nils Jorgenson back. on 'WS'
railway job • .in Oslo? How does
Don,.. McGibbon . of Bulawayo feel-
about ,the; riots in his . Rliodesiai.
homeland? • What's, ,become $f
. Tony Frornlbolo of Alaineda, Cal.?
'Did• .Clancy Cleary •ever.. •get his
'dairy •farm going , in. Australia?
On, which . ,side- of the. Iror'' Cur.
tain ::did` Rostislav Kanovsky, the
Czech, land? `
There were the .',crazy .:cartoons
by• "Chuck," the mad Ukranian,•
• spoofing the . Germans.' ,'There
were the ;old 'p.rison-camp recipes
for turnip jam. and 'prune Whisky.
and powdered'. milk pie. There
I were' the incredible. •stories—like
that Of , the Dutch lad who was.
shot :down and taken'. prisoner
while on, leave.'
There were. the excerpts from
letters. froin-home:,
- they • were
horrible in •their thoughtlessness,
but we thought' them hilarious.
For example ".We ' are sending.
:you a five-year' calendar; , feeling
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one, from a wife: "I'm 'afraiid.
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and is sending- you, some • cigaret
tes:"
There was the long list' of
'things to . do. when; ,I got
pubs, girls and restaurants to be
revisited, places to see;' gifts 'to
buy. •There."was the- entire ac-
count, in, tiny .writing, 9f what
had happened to tree' after I was
shot - clown—a. comedy 'of errors.
And there,' right at .the back
of the book,' tucked into a• little
flap, was Something •' that brought
me • up with a jolt. It was :a •head-
and• -shoulder photo. of a young
fellow scowling, .atthe camera,
He was whiskery and dirty, But
there wasn't 'a' line , .in his face,
his eyes were , clear and' sharp,
he had as shock. of thick, dark
hair, and ,he looked as .tough as
tow rope. I looked at it fd 'quite
'a • while:
Then I got • up and Went: into
thebar om and looked » iri 'the
mirror. Anti 1 saw the deep, fur-
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•OBITUARY
ALVERY .1, SMITH
A .lifelong resident . of , Inverhib-
ron idistrict,• Alvery.J. Smith died;
iri... Kincardine,: General,: Hospital
after three week's'' illness '
' Be wasIborn in Bruce township
53.:years ago, a 'sou of .the 'late
Alvery : J:• and.; Elizabeth : (pass.-
More)
Pass-more) Smith.
• In 1939` he roved Louise M. Wood
With: the `photo of. that • young.
fellow, and I took it down 'cellar,.
and I put it in a box, and I placed
a large trunk on topcif.the,�box.
And. just before I,mounted the
stairs,. Isaluted—merely ..a .casual
flip of; . the •hand --toward that -
corner. ` -
Then..1 squared' rnY. Shoulders,
pulled in my pot,'dorined. a plea
who survives, along with three '
sons;, Alvery E.,. 11. J. William
and Lloyd l .. S., :'at . hone; four
daughters, Margaret, `,'Mrs.. S..'
Smith, and Mary .Lou, ,Mrs. Gor-
don Jaares,. London; ;Dorothy, Mrs.
larolci .Campbell, 'Port Elgin and •
Shirley, at borne;seven'brothers,:
Fred and Harold, Tiverton;; Wm.„-
Elmer
m ;;Elmer and ' .Lloyd,: Kincardine;.:
iReginald, .Sarnia and Bruce,,
Bluevale and,: two sisters, Mary,
Mrs,Jrank 1Vliller, arangside and
Annie,. Mrs. 'Stanley Swass,, Tiv-
erton. •
: Last rites at Tiverton Baptist
Church Were •conducted: March "
27:th, by the 'Rev: Elsner Shaw
and temporary entoinbment '.was.
Made . at Kincardine:. cemetery'"`
chapel to be followed.'by burial'':
at . Baie-de-dore...cemetery.
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