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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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)