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Momma Cried

From Boys to Soldiers to Men

Reflection of four WWII soldiers, brothers leaving their home in Cape Breton to fight overseas. The ocean symbolizes travelling so very far from home, and the colours of red and purple the shades of the war, cruelty, violence, killing, sacrifice, and loss of life.

Nonfiction accounts of Canadian experiences in the Second World War by four Gillis brothers and their heartaches in leaving home, their mother and father and siblings, and their life and death experiences; told from their mother Philomena's perspective.

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