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Something happened to her dad and his fellow infantrymen almost 70 years ago and Mary Polak would like to have it acknowledged.
Ernest Peter Inkman — his friends have always called him Pete — was born in Agassiz in 1929 and was 21 when the Korean War broke out in 1950.
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Serving with the 1st Battalion of the Princess Patricia, 6 Platoon, he and his fellow Canadian soldiers spent endless days and nights on patrol in Korea in an ongoing game of cat-and-mouse with Chinese troops. One side would advance, the other retreat; then they’d repeat the push and withdraw the other way, and so on.
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“It felt like we’d struck a rock,” Josh says. In the dark, they saw something sliding down the side of the boat. “It was bobbing up and down like an iceberg,” Erin recalls. That’s when they realized it was the bow of a submerged boat.
Hindu was taking on water. “It was horrifying,” Erin says. “I was in shock. It didn’t occur to me that we could go down.” The collision had caused the plank-on-frame hull to spring a leak. They called the Coast Guard, but after assessing the situation Josh felt the bilge pumps could handle it until they got to Cape Cod.
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