Such... Is Life

The author was born and raised in Germany; in the province of Saxony, the former East Germany. After completing high school he chose agriculture as his profession and was trained to be an agricultural estate manager. Immediately after the completion of his three-year training he was drafted into the army and was shipped to the Russian front, where he spent two and a half years in the vicinity of Leningrad. He was ordered to become an officer and after the completion of officer's training school, he was shipped to the western front, where he served until the end of the war. With East Germany, the agricultural base of Germany lost to the Russian, his professional opportunities were very limited and he decided to immigrate to Canada. After nearly five years working in the forest industry, various types of construction and sometimes simply as a handyman, he was eventually introduced to the financial service industry. He joined Sun Life of Canada in January 1959 and retired in 1999. During those years he ad his wife have always lived in Terrace, B.C.