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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TTerrier, post: 8030968, member: 76835&quot;]Thanks to all of the veterans for their service!&nbsp; I am not a veteran but my dad was a WW2 veteran.&nbsp; We are Canadian and when Canada followed the UK into the war my dad and his three brothers all volunteered in the fall of 1939.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike the Ryan family, the oldest brother was a shipping clerk in Halifax, the second oldest worked on building coastal defences in BC and Alaska and the youngest was eventually shipped off to Silicy in the infantry where he was wounded and sent back home.</p><p><br /></p><p>My dad was a very clever man who could figure out how anything worked and could jury rig anything to get it running.&nbsp; In an amazing moment the army recognized this and shipped him to London where he was a draftsman on tank designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>After D-day he volunteered to go over to Europe as a tank mechanic.&nbsp; He was never right at the front but just behind fixing knocked out tanks.&nbsp; He went all the way through the low countries and into Germany and was there right to the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like many veterans he never talked about it much, even with his brothers.&nbsp; The only time I saw him get riled up about it was when he was sitting in the local cafe talking with a German army veteran who lived our town - they got along well as they were both just regular soldiers during the war.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some idiot was saying something stupid about WW2 and the German told him that was wrong.&nbsp; When asked why he should believe him my dad and the German veteran said &quot;We were there.&nbsp; Where were you?&quot;. Best answer ever![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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