ernie

grampa was in germany at the end of the war; there was much work to do, especially for sappers, with rebiulding and logistics, they would be the last to get home. in thier camp, the engineers had a young german iturperater named ernie. grampa and he became friends. grampa finally was sent home in the fall of '45 after five and a half years of war. as a kid i was once looking at a picture of grampas company of sappers in canada before heading overseas;(about a hundred men) on seeing this grampa said" there was only three of us left at the end of the war." i asked if they all were killed; he said" hell no; some were killed; some were wounded; some got sick; but, most went crazy!" grampa sponsered the young german lad ernie to come to canada; he worked on grampas' farm and went to school and became a high school principle while raising his family. even through more than five years of war and the loss of many of his friends grampa kept his humanity. this is a great legacy for those of us who carry on.....