Thread by @globeandmail

Jack Rhind fought in the WWII, and while he’s proud of how he and his comrades rose to the challenge, the brutality of war is something the 101-year-old veteran hopes to never see again.

"We need to remember how stupid and unnecessary war is."

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In 1939, Mr. Rhind made a “significant, casual decision” as a young university student to follow a friend into the artillery stream of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps.

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After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1942, Mr. Rhind was called up as an officer.

The following year, he and 93,000 other Canadians were dispatched along with troops from Britain, the United States, France and Poland to Italy.

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His impromptu choice would define not only Mr. Rhind’s time on the front lines in the Second World War’s fierce and bloody Italian campaign, but also his eventual rise to the crest of Corporate Canada.

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During the war, he kept journals of the action around him and the exploits of his gun crews, admittedly ignoring his commanders’ orders not to keep diaries lest they fall into enemy hands.

Read the full story by @jason_kirby:
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