Killer Elite

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Daniel had never left home before. Vancouver in the clean, crisp summer of 1945 was full of wonder to this prospector’s son from a remote village on the Arctic coast of Alaska. The reason for this happy visit was the end of the war in Europe and the return of his father by troopship that day.

Amid whirling bunting and the cheering of proud relatives, the veterans clambered off the Canadian Pacific steam train, some to renew their previous lives and loves, many to face the bitter realization of unattainable dreams or unexpected betrayals.

Daniel did not notice that his father was thin and gaunt, for he was still a great bear of a man and he bore gift-wrapped parcels of exciting shapes.

A taxicab took the family to their cheap lodgings close to Lion’s Gate bridge. After tea and once the first waves of excitement were spent, Father made his long-planned pronouncement.

“We have six days before the steamer takes us home, my hidjies.” Nobody knew why he called them that-only that it had a good, warm meaning. “And we will never forget these days, because the Hun are smashed forever and we are together.”

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