Category: Relationships

Dedicated to “Chris.”

The good news is that the pain will come to an end.

The Test

February 28, 2014, came and went without fanfare nor incident.

There’s nothing special about that date…except that it marks the 41st anniversary of the passing of a farm boy from Cottam, Ontario.

He was not special nor exceptional; just another man struggling occasionally to make his way through life, rarely thinking of the end; just getting today done; whatever it took; as dictated by his heritage.  And occasionally, a struggle it was, being orphaned before his teens, living with the extended family or in the orphanage, later on working the farms in lower Ontario.  Then, came the great adventure, wherein he and his peers lined up before dawn at the local army recruiting station the day after the Wehrmacht invaded Poland.

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