Sentences with phrase «canadian army reserves»

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An only child, who watched my father, a WWII veteran in the Royal Canadian Engineers, enter the reserve army of labor after he was fired from Philips and my mother - a homemaker - venture out to work to support the family as a telephone operator when my father's emphysema made it impossible for him to continue working in part - time electronics stores, I grew up angry, suspicious of giving my life over to a corporation, or what we called «the suits.»