In 1939, at the outbreak of WWII and seven years after having been ordained to the priesthood, Rev. Michael Joseph Dalton (May 5, 1902 - April 6, 2009) volunteered to join the Essex Scottish Regiment of the Canadian Army.One of many talented friends who encouraged the publishing of my personal War Diary opened up with a few impersonal pages garnered from a few notes. Then the author writes:
And I possibly would not have consented even after all these years, if Veterans of Windsor Area had not elected me - June 1967, “Veteran Of The Year” courtesy of CKWW Radio. I owe them something too in the Centennial Year. For they are the ones who helped Canada Celebrate in Peace, and who honored the Chaplain Service.
I dedicate this Diary to Total War to all those Jews - non-Catholics and Catholics who helped make my War years as livable as possible, and I hope useful.
Please excuse any typist errors from my rough notes.
“How better to get an accurate feeling of the time and place and the spiritual climate than to quote directly from his words, without any change in these long 25 years”
And I possibly would not have consented even after all these years, if Veterans of Windsor Area had not elected me - June 1967, “Veteran Of The Year” courtesy of CKWW Radio. I owe them something too in the Centennial Year. For they are the ones who helped Canada Celebrate in Peace, and who honored the Chaplain Service.
I dedicate this Diary to Total War to all those Jews - non-Catholics and Catholics who helped make my War years as livable as possible, and I hope useful.
Please excuse any typist errors from my rough notes.
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