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Kanata Kourier-Standard 44 Pages
44th Year, Issue 44 November 11, 2010
Goodbye Peggy: Kanata South Coun. holds retirement party. P2
Terrific teen: Girl wins youth award for volunteering. P11
National first: Church hosts support group for families of murder victims. P3
Soldiers on streets: Legion helps vets ‘It scares the hell out of me’: veteran BLAIR EDWARDS AND PAMELA STEEL KOURIER-STANDARD Bill Berry used to call it bomb whacky. When he returned home in 1951 after serving a year with the Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry, Berry had never heard of the term post traumatic stress syndrome. “After seeing and doing all the things I had done, I had a touch of it and I had to work it out myself,” he said. “If you had post traumatic stress syndrome you were advised to get over it and suck it up.” Berry spent his first summer home drinking, carousing and working hard on the family farm in Dunrobin. His family knew the 21 year old was a bit wired when he returned from Korea. There were all the tell-tale signs. Berry remembers an encounter with the local MPP one year at the Carp Fair. “Why the hell would you go to Korea?” the politician asked him.
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Berry responded with the “Patricia’s salute”, and knocked the man out. He offered the same salute to a member of a local Legion hall, when he was asked to leave because at that time the hall was only open to veterans of “recognized wars” not “police actions”, such as the Korean conflict. INNER DEMONS Some soldiers couldn’t deal with the horrors they had seen. During his tour in Korea, Berry and a fellow soldier named John, his best friend, were asked to search the bodies of dead Chinese soldiers strewn on the battlefield, to look for IDs. “What we found were photos of wives and children and girlfriends,” said Berry. “It freaked John out.” “These are real people,” John said. “How can we kill them?” After the war, John committed suicide. HOMELESS VETERANS, SEE 20
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Hundreds of people are expected to join the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Kanata Cenotaph on Nov. 11. See our Remembrance Day feature starting on page 20.