Re: memoriesQuestions1
Tom Holloway (xuegx@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK)
Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:52:57 +0100
> My question is to anyone who was a child during Blitz in Britain:
Hello. That's me....
> What were your feelings about the choice of leaving England for the safety of
> an evacuation, or staying with your family during the Blitz? Would you have
> gone? Did you know any who did go? Were they changed by the experience?
Feelings? Why does everyone keep asking about feelings?
My major concern, when my Mum had put my gas mask bag
over one shoulder before taking me to the station, and
another bag with a couple of sandwiches in on the other
shoulder, was that the sandwiches wouldn't last out the
whole of the war and I hoped there would be some more
on the train.
Then at the last minute my parents decided I wouldn't
go and I stayed in London. I preferred that, it meant I
could see more barrage balloons and German bombers. Better
than boring old countryside. It also meant I could start
growing my collection of shrapnel.
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You ask if people were changed by the experience of being sent
abroad instead of staying in London. To know the answer to
that one would need to know what they might have been like if
they _HADN'T_ gone. How can that be known?
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