Roy ... Veterans Memorial Lodge resident and Canadian veteran
At 18, Roy joined the Army, with the PPCLI 1st Battalion in Calgary. “I had wanted to go to Korea and fight in the war. But they had other plans for me." Roy trained as a Paratrooper in Rivers, Manitoba. “We arrived in December, which I remember was cold – 35 below zero!”
Remembering the rush of jumping out of the planes, Roy smiles when he thinks of how the instructors would say, right before opening the doors of the plane, "You don’t have to jump.” However, once the green light would come on and everyone pushed up tight there was no turning back. Roy said, "When they yelled 'go' you better bloody well move or you'd get trampled to death!” Read more
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