20 Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 16, 1988

Terrace legion report

stopped all hostilities on both

by Roy Greening
A Legion member showed me

' an old Terrace Herald supple-

ment dated Nov. 10, 1976,
which was devoted entirely to
Legion activities at Branch 13
from 1926-1976. He asked me to
have it preserved somehow and

‘add it to our display.

I did this and, upon looking

. the supplement over, I saw a

poem that I had written just
after the Second World War had
ended. When I was the supervis-
ing principal of the Thornhill
Elementary Schools, one of my
vice-principals was Mr. David
Simons, who died last year. He
was a member of the Legion and
later, president of the Branch.
He was an excellent speaker and
oral reader. I asked him if he
would read the poem and put it
on tape. He obligingly took a
copy and did a superb job of
reading a rather mediocre nar-
rative poem. Perhaps Dave
decided to contribute the poem
to the Legion supplement.

At age 21, when I wrote the
poem, my experiences were still
very vivid in my mind. When
our frigate attacked a submarine
it was usually sunk without a
trace except for some flotsam

_ and jetsam to show that we had

a kill. In one case, however, we
did take prisoners and they had

to eat and sleep with us until we

rode out a storm before putting
them ashore into the hands of

-the authorities.

Severe winter storms usually

sides until they subsided. Also,
because of the storm, we got to
know one another and found
out that our prisoners hated the
war as much as we did. Being
young and impressionable, these
situations inspired me to write
about the elements really being
in charge of our actions. So, I
wrote “Not Only War’’. I don’t
think I could write anything with
any feeling of sincerity without
experiencing it first-hand. The
poem was never published, but
it’s there in the historical area at
Branch 13. — ;

A clarification: A ‘‘Regular”’
member of the Legion has the
word ‘‘Legion’’ on his or her
crest and an
member has the
‘* Associate’.

The March 4 and 5 Band Ex-
travaganza in support of the new
band shell was a huge success.
Congratulations to those who
organized and ran the very
popular event. Now there is an
ancient tuba placed in the
Legion to receive further dona-
tions to the band shell fund.

In court

In Terrace provincial court on
Friday, February 19 Norma
Heke was fined $450 and receiv-
ed a six month drivers license

word

‘suspension for impaired driving..

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