Details: Helen Rose Myran and her siblings spent the winter months at a government boarding school, but during the summer they came home to their parents' log cabin on the Ojibwe reservation. In September 1932, the children prepared to return to school, even though their mother was gravely ill. A month later, the children's father Archie visited them at the school, telling them that their mother had passed away. By 1941, Helen was a seventeen-year-old who became interested in joining the Canadian Army for World War II. Helen dropped out of high school and joined the Canadian Air Force. When they discovered that Helen was underage, they told her she needed her father's permission to join the Air Force. In July 1941, Helen visited her father, asking for him to sign the papers so that she cou