april 08, 2009 12:36am
August 13, 2008 Rain Rain Rain
Wednesday August 13, 2008.
This morning has started as most of the mornings on this tour...RAIN.
I don't know what is going on with the weather this year but it is getting pretty old. I had been in contact with two friends of mine that I had met in London in May 2006 at a ceremony of remembrance of their fallen Brother James McDonald. I met the two brothers by the name of Lewis and Frances McDonald through my old scout leader named Harold La Pointe, you may recall Harold is the first veterans that I made a video recording of and that he was my old scout leader that was a influence in my young life. I call Lewis and Frances around ten o'clock and made arrangements to come into town and lead me and the Blue Bomber out to their home were I would spend a couple of days before I would take the Ferry to NS. I arranged for a donation from Northumberland Ferry's for the crossing the day before, They were very helpful and the donation will save a lot of the charities sort supply of money.
The brothers arrived at about 11am and Francis got into the Blue Bomber and I started it up, while we waited for the RV to warm up an elderly gentlemen approached the RV, I dismounted the RV and greeted the man. He said “I want shake your hand and tell you that you are doing a great job” I said thank you and asked him his name he said my name is James Ward. So I asked if we could do an interview, he agreed. So then I asked Lewis and Francis if they would mind if I did an interview before we left they said “of course”. So we went inside the #1 BR. of the legion in Charlottetown and set up for an interview. As we went along James told me that he was a photographer in the Navy and that he served on all three of our aircraft carriers. I asked if he would be interested in sharing some of his photo's, he said yes so we set up a time to meet he next day and finish the interview. I picked up and said good bye to everyone at the legion.
Frances got into the RV and Lewis lead the way out to the homestead. When we got the RV parked Lewis and Francis and I set out on a tour of their part of the Island and we had a good lunch on the way to the monument that their two fallen Brothers were enshrined on out front of the legion in ____Bay. After a couple of hours we ended up back at their home for dinner and lots of good conversation. They let me use the phone to call Harold up in London were he is visiting our good friend Nancy. Roberts She is a warm hearted gal from London were Harold spends his time when he is in London. She is a good friend to Harold, the brothers and myself. We had a good conversation with Harold who has, as I'm finding out has lots of stories that I have not heard yet. I must record the spaces in his story soon..I also had a chance to talk to John Bentley, John is a close friend and is a great help to me back in London. He is taking care of my cat Brutus and arranging to get more s-shirt printed for the FOV. I also talked with our VP Harry Watts, Harry is taking care of the funds for our gas through a generous company who appreciate the mission we are on and without the help of Vandyke travel we would have a hard time continuing our mission. I really like talking to Harry, every time I get off the phone with him I feel a new burst of adrenaline to carry on. The brothers and I talked a little more that night and listened to some fiddle music then I turned in for the night.
