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We recently had the chance to meet Isabelle Steward a lady who had first hand experience of the realities of war. She was in her early twenties at the begining of the war. When war was declared she felt like most other people around her. She was slightly scared but definatly apprehensive, her parents felt the same. When war was declared she was working in a maternity hospital in the Winchester countryside.As she lived in the country she saw limited bombing. But when she visited Portsmouth she saw the Germans bombing the docks. The hardest asspect of the war for her was the rationing as it was hard to adjust to and constantly reminded hero of the war. Herself and her family found ways to get around these limits and even planted their own vegetables. Her father was an accountant so he had to stay at home and her mother was a house wife. The only person she knew that went to fight was one of her cousins who fought in burma against the Japanese. The scariest point if the war for her was being out in the street when heavy bombers or Doodle bugs were above.She had to run into the nearest shelter. She never came into direct conttact with any foreign soldiers but always saw them when she was on the train, but this was not often as travel was harder during the war.She remembered Churchill speaking on the wireless.She thought he was a really good Prine minister and really inspired you. She had always thought Hitler was a bad man and never doubted that we would win the war.After the war life went slowly back to normal. The class system had all but gone and many of her friends got married to men from the services but things were still quite basic.

by Ollie and Alan

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