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From: Sylvia Dorman <>
Subject: Re: [GenChat-L] Re: GenChat-D Digest V98 #208
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 07:04:35 -0700


I am compiling stories about this war and would love to hear from
> anyone. It can be veterans, Rosey the riveter, families at home hearing
> from the soldiers or stories told to you by your parents, etc.

My memories of WW2 are odd for the simple reason I was born in 1938 and
of course the next year war broke out, my dad was recalled to his
regiment being on reserve prior to he actual Declaration of War. In any
case my first years were spent thinking of war as a normal way of life,
blackouts, food rationing and of course carrying a gas mask at all
times, not that they were ever used except as we got running around we
would use them to play "frogmen" and run around the street in them,
causing our local Air Raid Warden to chase after us.

Those war years in my part of England anyway were years were all the men
were away and the women in war work so as a kid you really had a street
full of mothers, if your own was at work any other mother off shift was
available to wipe a up a tear or give a smack where needed.:)) The air
raids were considered to be a normal part of most nights, this must have
been possibly in 1941 as the raids increased and as in the case of most
small children I was excited not scared, because of course children live
in an enchanted circle, they cannot die or anyone close to them.

I could ramble on but had better not...:)

Sylvia Dorman

http://www.island.net/~sdorman

Why put off 'til tomorrow what you'll never do anyway?

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