In the second world war "young people from this nation left the comforts and security of home and family to enter into what proved to be a long and sustained struggle in a cause that threatened the freedom and stability of the entire world. Canada's youth found itself on strange foreign shores, cut off from friends and loved ones. As days turned into months an months into years, the hunger for news became insatiable. There was no complacency here. The usual, the ordinary, the commonplace were eagerly gobbled up as individuals desperately strove to keep in touch. News from home, news of vi... View More...
