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Cadets “I’ve learned and heard something stronger than this.” Many of the boys who attended residential schools participated in cadets, a military-sponsored training program. Cadet training was part of the drill at the two Anglican residential schools that Michael Cheena attended in the 1960s. “While I was in the residential school I also—I was also a member of the Army Cadets. I used to go to Army Cadets once a week on Thursday nights. I kind of liked that because it was something to do, you know, during the week, other than sit around and do nothing.” 723 Earl Clarke also participated in cadets, and recalled it as being highly regimented. And the others were, they were cadets. We, we join, we had to join the 590 squadron. We’d march around for hours in that building, and you had to stand still for a long time. If your nose itched, or whatever, you know, you couldn’t, or else you’d be kneeling with your arms out, or running around, discipline, army discipline I guess they call it. 724 One of Ray Silver’s strongest memories of the Alberni school during the 1940s was military drill. I learned how to march. See, the war was on, and they took us out on route marches. And you can imagine going on a route march thirsty and hungry.… We were little guys. When we got a little, well, later on we even had the little wooden guns that we packed and marched, and sang songs, “London’s burning, London’s burning, look over yonder.” I never, never forgot that. “And there will always be an England, England shall be free,” and we’re gonna free England, that’s what they taught us. 725 Students sometimes went from the cadet corps straight to the army. Thomas Keesick said that in the 1940s at the McIntosh school in Kenora, six boys were recruited. “It was later that they found out these six boys were sent off to war, Second World War, and only one returned, his name was Albert Stone and I was there at his burial in Grassy.” 726 Noel Knockwood joined the Canadian army after attending the Shubenacadie school in the 1940s. “I spent 413 days in combat in Korea. And I served in 1952 and ’53.” 727 Alan Knockwood said that life at the Shubenacadie school prepared him for the Canadian navy. I went to navy boot camp. Standing in line and doing pt in the morning, or what have you, and having the chief petty officer, or drill sergeant in some cases, holler at me. I would stand there at attention and look at them and say, “You ain’t got nothing on Sister Claire or Brother Sampson. I’ve learned and heard something stronger than this.” 728
198 • Truth & Reconciliation Commission Larry Roger Listener also enjoyed his participation in the cadet program. <strong>The</strong> government didn’t realize, you know, these guys are getting good in the cadets. That’s when aim [American Indian Movement] and all this was going on. So they cut the cadets off because maybe to them they were making us warriors, but no, they helped us. Every time we shot a gun there was a target there. That’s where most of us learned how to go hunt, is by shooting those guns. 729
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