The author spent part of his childhood in Dresden Germany during the war where his parents had been deported from Lithuania by the Nazis.  After the war he lived in France fore three years where he completed grammar school. He came to Canada as a child attended High school in London Ontario. Participated in the Air Cadet program and received a flying scholarship for a Canadian Private Pilot's license. He joined the R.C.A.F. and was selected as a pilot but decided that military service was not for him and left to attend university.