Where is everybody; six days without a post forces me to keep checking my bank accounts for something to do.
But today was different. Was at the Nanton Museum attending their "Salute to the Americans in the RCAF" event. Very well attended as more than 400 sat down to lunch. A lot of speeches and they ran the engine of the Lancaster twice. I was going to complain about the noise, but remembered this was the noise that got me my DVA pension.
I had a table where I sold my books (Bless You, Brother Irvin and The Lucky Pigeon) and ended up selling 55 copies. Anybody looking for copies had best order soon before I run out of stock.
Congratulations on your book sales-That is brilliant and a good tribute to your writing. Forget the bank statements cos that IS depressing! The sound of a Lancaster is just great and at least you Canadians have a better sense of remembering-more than can be said for "the powers to be" over here,seems to be an uphill struggle with most of our old aifields/bases being turned into the detention centres etc or housing estates.I was at RAF Hemswell a while back,and the memorial is hidden away next to a tarmac carpark and altho a lot of the buildings are in use as an antique centre,there is no sense of commemoration at all and the memorial needs a good clean.On the postacrds it is immaculate and gleaming white which is nothing like it looks now.Most dispiriting.
Thank you Linda, and it was a very good day. My Wife, Jane, was beside me selling her Greeting cards, and between us, it was a very good day. Karl Kjarsgaard was there, and the more I sold, the more he smiled. Part of my revenue is going to help him raise the Halifax LW170.
You are not alone in losing your history in the demolition of airfields, etc. All of my old stations over here have disappeared in the march of progress. However, on the bright side, the Government has asked for old Veterans to re-enlist so as to help train the new recruits. I am anxious to see how many volunteers I can get at next Thursday's meeting of the Aircrew Association. We had a couple of crews organized for the Gulf War, but they turned us down. Overqualified, they said.
I think everyone is taking advantage of the last bit of summer before kids go back to school and we have to brace for winter. Things usually pick up in fall.
Linda R Ibrom
