大象传媒

I was eight on Liberation Day. I remember we had a couple of cycles and my mother and father had one of my brother and I as passengers and we cycled into town, and we had different vantage points. One was somewhere around the Royal Hotel, I remember having part of the time there, and then part up by the slipway near the Town Church. And boats coming in, and seeing troops coming off, and just people wild with excitement, I suppose ecstatic with excitement. There was the cheering, people coming off, troops coming off and throwing sweets around, and providing cigarettes. People had flags, I don鈥檛 know where they all came from, but there seemed to be lots of flags draped on houses.
ALAN BISSON

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