On Tuesday, April 14, Beacher April Wilson-Lange celebrated her birthday, the 70th anniversary of her father’s liberation from a Second World War death march, and the launch of a fundraising campaign to fund a documentary about her search for her father’s past. The journey to this point began when Wilson-Lange started looking into her father’s […]
Tag: World War II
Veterans’ stories mix tragedy, comedy and history
Going around the table in the Royal Canadian Legion on Dawes Road, five veterans of the Second World War and UN missions to the Middle East agree – children are the best talkers. “They can come up with some of the damndest questions you ever heard,” says Myer Goobie, 92, noting that five- to seven-year-olds […]
