As a child, I often heard him say that during those long, lonely months in England, he told himself that if he ever got back to Canada alive, he would never go overseas again.
Lorsque j'étais enfant, je l'ai souvent entendu raconter que pendant ces longs mois de solitude en Angleterre, il se disait que, s'il revenait un jour au Canada vivant, il ne retournerait jamais outre-mer.