Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 79 continued ... Doucette had four daughters: Caroline, Rachel, Elizabeth and Marie. Marie Doucette, the youngest of four daughters, never got to know her father. Marie only met her father briefly and that was just after she was born in 1941. He had already enlisted and was training in Halifax when she was born. He came to Membertou and spent about 90 minutes with his infant daughter. Then two buddies arrived and told him it was time to go, that they were being called to Halifax and shipped to France. "So that's the last time that he held me, I guess," said Marie. "That's the only time." Marie said it was heartbreaking to hear her sisters recall waiting for the train to bring their father back home, but it never did. "I wish I did meet him, and what I hear about him, the stories, I'm so amazed and proud that he went to the war and fought for us," Marie said. She and her sisters went to France and visited Abbaye d'Ardenne and his grave at Bény-sur-Mer for the 60th D-Day Anniversary. It was sad, but moving, she said. "I was proud because he was a Mi'kmaw and was so proud that he fought for me and for my family and for the people all over the world," she said. "I went to the gravesite there and I couldn't believe it how these people were killed, so many of them in that graveyard. Even sometimes in nightmares or dreams you can see those graves, how many that fought for us." North Nova Scotia Highlanders executed at Abbaye d'Ardenne 7 June, 1944: • Charles Doucette of Membertou • George Richard McNaughton of Sydney • Joseph Francis McIntyre of Sydney Mines • Hollis Leslie McKeil of Amherst • James Alvin Moss of Stellarton • Thomas Edward Mont of Truro • Raymond Morre of Kentville • Yvan Lee Crowe of New Glasgow • Hugh Allen McDonald of Morvan (as recorded on memorial sign at Abbaye d'Ardenne) Marie Doucette
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