Remembrance Day - Personal Journal

My grandmother from my mother's side had came here to Canada from Budapest along with her brothers all four of them. I will see later if I can get a scanner and post these letters. The letters where sent from Italy to my grand mother she would wait each day to see what came. There is only one brother that did not go as during the war within Canada there has never been a draft all the men during that time enlisted as they just thought within that kind of way. All three of them died in Italy and the very last one I remember reading was from one brother describing how he loved the italian culture and the writings were so well wrote. I guess back then they didn't have anything else other than to deal with the war - as this was during the time of WW1. When my father retired from Norad and what he did, I was living in a small town named Yorkton, Saskatchewan. And I will never forget it as after my grandfather had passed away, she was all alone and ironically most all that had lived there and around her never really did that much for her. So I would stop to go in and visit here and she would never stop talking - a very soft spoken elder women she was but when she started talking about one subject such as her brothers, I would sit next to her and how often she would talk about all that they did and then go and get the news articles and pictures of them. She of all my grand parents I think I knew the most as all the times before she passed away - I loved to just go in and give her company and the story of here three brothers is one that I don't have at my hand right now but when you read it you could feel the times in which they were facing.

All three were in WW1 and they were within the Canadian Army as there was no Air Force at that time.