Posted on 08/05/08
They paid freedom's price
Toronto -- Today is the 63rd anniversary of V-E Day (Victory in Europe) day. My father, now 88, spent 4½ years overseas in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, leaving a wife and four-month-old son in Canada. Among the very few stories he can bring himself to tell about the war is one from May 8, 1945, a date that is, in its own way, as important to him as Remembrance Day: He and his sergeant were playing cards in a tent in a muddy field in Holland when they heard a BBC Radio announcer say: "All organized resistance has ceased." When the significance of that statement sank in and they realized the war was over, dad's sergeant broke open a bottle of rum he'd been saving for the occasion.
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