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Bill Scoones

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28.01.2024

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Although overwhelming, and also one of the first things I did, the day after I graduated as a ordinary thing. I was shipped up to up the coast to collect a whole bunch of Japanese fishing rods, which were taken over at that point, which is a really tough job because I'd been to school with Japanese kids, they were my friends. And I, my option was either to go or to get shot for being a fighter was really great. And it's still for the Japanese. It's still I think, a terrible thing for them to have happen to them. A lot of them were well, they were mostly Canadian citizens some of the New World War One veterans in the Canadian Forces. So that was sad. That was I was really sad.

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That's life especially in the armed forces in the Royal Canadian Navy. But I had some fun in the old days and I enjoyed being in Ireland and Scotland. I knew Londonderry and Belfast very well back. Then the tension there between the northern and southern Irish was pretty vivid. Because they were neutral. The South was neutral, your office British when you're trying to