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Hockey In The Dark Days Of Europe
by Paul on 05/16/08 at 10:35 PM ET
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from the Sun Times (Owen Sound),
Canada won the world title and McReavy scored the championship-winning goal. His hockey career would later take him to even greater heights, but until he died in 2001 at age 83 he never forgot that dark time in Europe in the days before the start of the Second World War.
While men from around the world were playing hockey, Adolf Hitler was putting the finishing touches on his takeover plan of Austria. Neighbouring Czechoslovakia was next on his list and within 13 months it too would be in German hands. War erupted six months later.
“I remember him coming back and saying that was a pretty scary time,” says Father Tom McReavy, the hockey player’s only surviving sibling.
Pat McReavy was only 20 and a long way from home.
more (long, but a great story)
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