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Jim Schurman recalls trying to "join up." When war broke out in the fall of 1939 he was only fifteen. He and his friends Melvin and Leonard Arsenault (brothers) and Ernest and Charles MacPhee (twin brothers) all went in to the local armoury to try to enlist in the army. The recruiting officer seeing that the boys were underage turned them away with the recommendation to go home and "eat more bread and molasses." When Jim turned eighteen he travelled to Charlottetown to enlist in the navy, but when he got there he changed his mind and went into the army instead.
Submitted: April 2005
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