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:
“I really don’t think this war will end soon. We are completely aware of the difficulties, no food or fuel, the danger, but we want to be stronger than all that. With each child, we are fighting back with our love of life.”
—Tina Bajraktarebic (b. 1965)
“We wished our two souls
might return like gulls
to the rock. In the end,
the water was too cold for us.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)