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I remember distinctly the day that the war was declared. I was eight years old at the time and I was skipping with a friend outside but the windows were open and I heard on the radio that war had been declared. Everybody seemed to come out on the doorsteps, I don鈥檛 know why but I distinctly remember everyone coming to their doorsteps and talking to their neighbours about this occurrence.

Of course at the time when I was eight it didn鈥檛 seem to mean very much to me. I didn鈥檛 realise the significance of the war, but as the war went on we gradually began to realise how difficult things could be: We had to have rationing where everything was rationed. We had about two eggs a week and that sort of thing and that affected us considerably.

This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Becky Barugh of the 大象传媒 Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Sheila Cooper and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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