The Button In the years following the liberation of the Netherlands, a father shared the story of a single button with his ten year old son. The boy, Maarten, was watching as his mother was making clothes on the sewing machine when he saw a shiny button in the button box. “Mama,” he asked, “Where did this button come from?” “I don’t know,” she replied, “you should ask your dad” That night his father told him of the wartime event of April 22, 1945. “We lived in the Parish house where my father, your granddad, was the keeper. In the spring of 1945, I was eleven years old. We were forced to hide in the cellar because outside there was fighting between the Canadian liberators and the Germans. The Canadians brought their wounded to the kitchen of our house to care for them and your grandfather left the cellar to help them. After the war I found the button that belonged to a Canadian uniform jacket.” That night, two of the soldiers died from their wounds, Private James Jamieson of Toronto, Ontario, and Lance Corporal Edmond Levesque, the husband of Marie Elizabeth D’Eon of West Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia. Read the full story at: http://www.wartimeheritage.com/storyarchive2/story_the_button.htm