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My name is Jeanette ,I was 7yrs when war broke out.We were asked to dinner at an aunt's house. We were listening to the wireless.the 大象传媒 news. A mans voice was talking.Every one was still, the man said , This country England is at war with a country called Germany. My aunt Leana started to cry, so did my Mother.Soon we left and went home, to pack. We were to go to a place called weymounth, where Dad was stationed.I was to go to school there,which did not please me at all.I had left all my friends behind.

We were not long atWeymouthwhen I had to come home again.They said the Germans were going to bomb at any time now.I remember being very frightened.They put me in a car with a lady, she was one of the officer's wifes.She had a little dog, I was to look after it.I suppose to distract me from leaving. Where my Mother and Father was I did not know.We drove to Plymouth and she wanted to go to the shops. She left me with the dog outside the shop,and was taking her time to come to come out. I was worried and went to find her.
Of course it had to happen to me,I opened the shop door and went in with the dog saw her ,the dog did it's jobs there in the shop. WE got out of there quick. She was so cross ,and I sulked all the way home to Cornwall.

We got home ,me crying ,my aunt angry,the lady , god knows what she thought.Ithink she went away very soon after that.I settled down at school again.We had a few air raid alarms ,my aunt sat under the stairs and my cousins and I under a large steel table.My aunt was very frightened so I used to go and sit with her and sing ,Ithought I had a wonderfull voice at that time. What made it worse some one entered me in a competion,I did not win ,but got a consolation prize of a box of chocolates.The song was ,Wish me luck as you wave me good by.

Dad came home on leave, goodness knows where my Mother was at this time.Do you know I never asked Iwas that pleased to see him.My uncle Fred was talking about my dad,"
The silly s--, in the last one and now he's of again.The Royal Artilery,thank god no horses this time ,they got slaughtered along with the lads who looked after them. He was only 14yrs old for God's sake.

Dad went back again I went back to school again. We were church goers, and it was our Sunday School party.It was held at some privite grounds near where we lived. We had our picnic and were playing skipping, and heard this plane. We thought it was one of ours, it was'nt.For it started to shoot at us,one little boy was killed/we was screaming so much we were sick. that was the end of partys.

War started in ernest,and a few bombs were dropped in our town. The bay was where a lot of the action was.People was trying to escape from France ,and the Germans were trying to stop them.A fishing boat got sunk, and every one was dead all but a little dog which was found swimming in the water covered in oil.

Bad new on the home front, Dad said in the letter home that Plymouth was getting it thick and fast. The poor people were leaving their homes at night to go outside the city. They were sleeping in the hedges, wherever they they thought they would be safe. Other news was that the army in France was in retreat and trying to escape from a place called Dunkque.The Germans were trying to stop them.Little boats went to sea to try to pick up as many soldiers as they could. Us kids were in a flurry of excitement, and were planning what to do if the Germans came here.

How could they? Mr Churchill said that we were invinchable.We would fight them on the beaches.Uncle Walter came home from those beaches in France, some said he was a wrecked man.He would not talk or laugh with us as before.We told him of our plan for upseting the Germans if they came here.He roared at us { You stupid kids ,you do not what you ar talking about.They would kill you rather than look at you} We run out of there quickly than we went in,we were so scared.Auny Leana said it was shell-shock.

Later on he said sorry, and tried to tell us of the things that had happend out there .The solders had got to the beaches and were trying to find shelter. It was very near impossible,it was nearly all sand and hillocks of grass. The German planes were constantly machine-gunning them, the noise of it all sent the men crazy.A lot of men were in the water hoping that the boats would hurry up and pick them up.All the family were horror stuck .All of us went home dumb struck.Uncle Walter was never the same again.

Us kids went on as normal, playing with our gas masks, pretending to be monsters, frightening the little kids.Getting a clip round for doing it.At home when it was bed time I used to go up to our attic, from there you could see the whole of the bay.Lands End was just around the bend from us.I could see the ships smoke ,and quite often a red glare in the sky. That ment that a ship was sunk,it gave me a awfull terrible feeling.

As I got older and Ilooked at my own children and grandchildren also great grand children I hope that they would never go though any thing like that again. But childen do all over the world, Much more than we ever can imagine.How safe are children now?

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