The Valour and the Horror

FAVREAU:

My family came to Canada in 1665 and we were soldiers. I wasn't too happy with what the Germans were doing in Europe. I joined and I was glad to defend my country. A lot of my friends said this wasn't our war. How could they say that when German submarines were sinking ships in the St. Lawrence river?

In a war it's the family and the land. You have to save those two. With a land you have a family, and with a family you have a country.

At the beginning in the Air Force, English Canadians were giving us a hard time, you know, the pea soup thing. Anyway, once our squadron got invited to the Duke of Gloucester's castle...he liked Canadians.

A banquet - with all silver and the crystal... So we're starting to eat and my neighbors - English Canadians - don't know which knife to use, which spoon to take...

Well, that was part of my education, so... they had to watch me...And then, after the dinner I saw this huge piano, probably the biggest piano I'd ever seen in my life. So I sat down -- and started to play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. You should have seen the expression on their faces.