"Whiz-Bangs and Woolly Bears" is a story about a soldier of the
Great War and his experiences as an artillery gunner in France. I
used to listen carefully to his stories while we worked on his farm
in Carleton County, New Brunswick. He had kept a diary during the
war, and I later had a chance to look at it.
The short entries did not begin to describe the horrors of the
Western Front in 1917 and 1918. As I grew older, I began to write
him to ask about the details. He responded to questions about major
battles in this example: "Passchendaele was just one glorious
mudhole. We were there 42 days. Kept 24 men on the guns and lost 42
in the time, an average of one a day." This is the essence of what
"Whiz Bangs and Woolly Bears" is about. It is a running discourse
between a grandfather, Walter Ray Estabrooks and his grandson Hal
Skaarup, now in the army as well.
Although the story is essentially about Walter Estabrooks, his
experiences during the Great War, it is also about the fact that he
lived to tell the tale. So many did not.
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