Carnie's Comments

Who will you think about on Remembrance Day?  I'll take some time to remember tomorrow.

I'll think about my late uncle Gilbert Carnie - Royal Regina Rifles.  He sacrificed for us.  He battled in hand-to-hand combat overseas during World War II.  He also served with the Canadian Forces a few years later in the Korean War.  He witnessed the horrors.  He was a big, tough man.  He was my hero.

I'll remember Flight Officer G.D. "George" Carnie.  My late father, who served during World War II with the Royal Canadian Air Force. 

I also think about Mac "Lucky" Wilson who, at the age 89, shared some stories from his World War II experience for the first time in his life, with us, on CHAB, a number of years ago. He didn't tell us much but he didn't need to.  If you met Mac and took the time to talk to him, you saw it in his eyes and you heard it in his voice. He witnessed some terrible things - the horrors of war.  And, he experienced that living hell in hopes that you and I never have to.  Mac died about a year after I met him just down the street from me at the Pioneer Lodge. 

Lest we forget.