We had our Rotary Club Remembrance service on Thursday at lunch time. Two of our members went ashore on D-Day and one of them spoke about it. We have another member who is recently retired from active service and he was a Sea King Navigator and saw action in the mid east theatre. We had a guest from Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital in Toronto attend and speak briefly.
He tolds us that there are about 500 WWII veterans in chronic care at Sunnybrook, average age is 86. We donated $1,000 to their Comfort Fund. Our Charter President one of the D-Day veterans joked that it would buy several good rounds of shots.
Anyway it looks like we are getting a group together to go up and sing Caroles for the boys, I will definitely be one of the bass section, drawing on my high school choir and church choir experience.
Remember from earlier in this thread? On Friday, tail gunner Pat Brophy's daughter presented me with a newly published book of the story of Canada's WWII flying heroes.
Amazingly, not only did she get the author Ian Darling to sign it, she had several of the surviving airmen personally sign the title page in "their own" chapter of the book.
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