Six days before D-Day, Max Meisels and his fellow Jewish soldiers got an order from their commanding officer. He endured the sight of relatives being rounded up by German officers, never to be heard from again. Like Maxwell, Polowin felt he and his fellow seamen serving aboard the HMCS Huron shaped history when they helped beat back the remnants of Germany’s naval fleet during the D-Day campaign. Maxwell has watched the rise of religious violence with deepening chagrin, quoting a frequent epitaph on the graves of soldiers proclaiming that they sacrificed their todays for survivors’ tomorrows. “If these young men would get up today and look at the world and what is happening, not only against the Jews — mosques are being attacked, churches are attacked — they would say ‘what the hell have you done with the tomorrows we gave you?”‘

Source: National Post May 28, 2019 15:00 UTC