Resolution: Day 4

Word Count: 24,060

Summary of Events:

Shelton, Georgiana, and all of their friends — except Pearl, who was apparently ill — went out for sodas and talked about a lot of things, including what little Shelton and Georgiana had already decided about their wedding. Afterwards Shelton and Georgiana talked about her concerns due to what was in the news about Korea and Shelton did his best to reassure Georgiana. The following morning Shelton thought some more about the matter . . .

Excerpt of the Day:

Warm sunlight shone through Shelton’s bedroom window and onto the floor. He stared at all the bits of dust that the light illuminated. It made him wonder just how dusty the air actually was when he saw them.

Prompted by Georgiana’s worry last night, Shelton had actually paid the paper boy extra to give him a second copy of the Journal that morning and had read through it to see what Georgiana might have seen about Korea that would’ve caused her to be so worried, and he had to admit, it made her fears seem somewhat justified.

He was still convinced that even if he were to enlist tomorrow he wouldn’t likely be sent anywhere to fight until he’d probably had something like a year’s training, which would mean that he would only be sent off after they’d been married.

Besides, even though it sounded like tensions were high in Korea, it didn’t mean that Canada was necessarily going to get involved . . . well, then again, Prime Minister St. Laurent was very adamant that Canada should be involved in helping fight the spread of Communism worldwide, and it was Communism that was a central part of the threat in Korea.

So it was possible that Canada would get involved in Korea, but even time would tell what that involvement would even entail; surely they wouldn’t want to overrun Korea with Canadians, and who said other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that had been formed last year wouldn’t also get involved.

That was a decent number of countries, all with quite a few people, and from what he observed on his globe all the countries were at least as big as Korea or bigger. If they all sent military help they could overrun the place.

As a result, Shelton was unconvinced that he, Wes, and any other young men who might possibly join the Army within the next year would be given hurried training and sent off to Korea as soon as possible.

In fact, unless the war dragged out a long time nothing could even guarantee that Shelton, Wes, or any other enlistees would make it to Korea at all.

Sitting here without a war even ongoing, though, Shelton couldn’t predict a thing, he could only speculate, and it was his speculation that Canada might get involved, but that they wouldn’t be mobilising near as many soldiers because the land area they’d be going to would be considerably smaller than the continent of Europe, unless the war actually became something larger.