David Bender of Winnipeg, a Dieppe vet and former prisoner of war contributes this bit:
We had a fellow in our camp in England who never received any mail. One day he was busy writing a letter and someone asked him to whom he was writing.
“Myself,” he said.
“What about?”
“I don’t know; I won’t get it back for three days.”
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