Annie's war.(Gazette)(Personal account)

From: Manitoba History | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

We met one summer day in 1953. I was a child of ten and Annie was a kindly, silver-haired, Great Aunt of mine, one of my Grandmother's four sisters. Unfortunately, I never knew my Grandmother Maud; she died the year before I was born. It was baseball season, and I was a Little League Lion with delusions of throwing a perfect game. I had no interest in hearing the older generations reminisce, and no idea of the tales that Annie might tell.

Some 45 years passed before I began to uncover her extraordinary story. In August 1998, my father passed away, leaving me an ancient ...

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