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Below you will find a selection of veteran profiles which represent the incredible stories of service and sacrifice which are currently being collected and archived by The Memory Project: Stories of the Second World War. Each profile commemorates the seven days of Remembrance Week.
Gordon Bannermann | Victoria, BC | Army
"The memories of the fellows that I actually served with during those days, it's a bond closer than brothers.."
Sam Garnet | Toronto, ON | Army
"I enlisted one year after I got married, I enlisted when I was 19..."
Charles Goodman | North Saanich, BC | Army
"A year went by and when I was 15 I joined the reserve army in St. John and a year later, I lied about my age and I forged my registration certificate..."
Margaret Haliburton | Toronto, ON | Navy
"All my friends were like me, a moment of excitement...war was very well remembered by our parents, it was only some 20 odd years. And they remembered it very well..."
Madge Trull | Mississauga, ON | Navy
"War was declared and it was a pretty traumatic time, I remember crying when we heard it, because it was sort of a feeling of devastation..."
George Waters | Winnipeg, MB | Air Force
"My main thought was, I must, in some help, in some way, to do something to get rid of Hitler..."
Leonard Whiffen | Halifax, NS | Navy
"I probably thought war was for brave men, however, I knew I wanted to do what the others were doing. we never thought about if anything was going to happen to us..."