That's a great story. Love the picture of your parents!
My grandfather emigrated to Canada from what is now Ukraine as an infant in 1917, with his mother, right after the Russian Revolution. They were mennonite, and they found other mennonites in western Canada (there are a lot).
He volunteered to serve in WWII and met my grandmother in England. He was one of the soldiers who landed on Juno Beach on D-Day. He never, ever, spoke about it.
Thanks WW. a wonderful story of your grandparents. I think a lot of them didn’t speak of it as they witnessed so much death And violence of fellow man.
My uncle was with the medics, carrying the dead a and wounded off the battlefield. He was never the same after and had horrid nightmares, waking up in terror after he returned to Canada.
There are many Amish people settling here ( coming from Ontario) and bringing old farms to life again and some Mennonites settling at the other end of the Island.
Did your parents follow the Mennonite way of life?
No, most definitely not. For volunteering to serve in the army my grandfather was essentially shunned from the Mennonite community, and my parents divorced before I have any memory at all. I was raised very dysfunctionally. :)
Haha WW. I think we all have a bit of dysfunction...some more than a bit.
Definitely an interesting family tree . Your grandfather was a brave man and he was better off without a group of people who shunned him for his devotion to fight for the future of his country.💕 ❤️