War and Return
He was thought to have been the youngest Canadian soldier to enlist in the Canadian Army during World War I joining the 185th Battalion of the Cape Breton Highlanders at the war's outbreak. He returned to Canada shortly before the end of the war and later worked for the Young Men's Christian Association first in Halifax and then as an executive member in Chicago.
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Famous quotes containing the words war and/or return:
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah 2:4.
“I hate that word. It’s return—a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)