Lisa Doucet Reviews Seasons Before the War
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Nostalgic Recollection of Pre-war Newfoundland Charms Kids
The central tie connecting the two story lines is music
Andy Flanagan shares the story of how Second World War prison guards regularly inspected Andrew “Ando” Flanagan’s diary and blacked out sections, ripped them out or beat him for what he wrote
The deliberate, eternal journey of identity
Newfoundland offered a true escape hatch to political freedom from the Iron Curtain.
Many of Canada’s underage soldiers weren’t made aware that they could be shot, “that they could actually suffer horrifically and become victims,” Dallaire says. “That dimension was not even in the training construct at the time. You were always working at destroying the enemy and you never looked at the fact that you yourself could become a victim.”
He notes that while the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador is an honour to receive, “it belongs to the veterans who went in harm’s way to bring an end to the Third Reich and liberate me from a brutal slavery and certain death.”