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This is one of the stories collected on the 25th October 2003 at the CSV's Make a Difference Day held at 大象传媒 Manchester. The story was typed and entered on to the site by a CSV volunteer with kind permission of Faye Margaret Morris.

Faye Margaret Morris-

I was 15 when the war started, I had left school by the age of 16 and was at the British Engine and Boiler Makers that had the land mine dropped on it. We were told the next day to come into work, bomb or no bomb, so we rode there on our bikes through the glass and debris. Next I worked in an aircraft factory, and then I went nursing. It was Red Cross nursing, very sad, it made you realise what the war was really about. We were happy in our own ways, we felt that we were doing something useful.

I was never evacuated as I was too old, but it was a real shambles, if the truth were known. All the pretty girls were picked out as everyone wanted them, and nobody wanted the boys with runny noses.

I knew a lot of people who went to war, many of whom were killed. My brother was called up, he was seventeen. We had a Red Cross dance for those men going over to France everyone of those lads was dead a week later, the boat going over to France was sunk.
Rob, my brother was with the Fleet Air Arm, he was waiting to go to Japan on the air craft carriers to bomb from there, but the Atom bomb was dropped.

I can remember plenty from the air raids. I was at the British Engine during the 1940鈥檚 one. I went down to the office the day before and seeing all the stuff hanging up in the Shambles, of coarse it was all blown up. We had raids for a few nights and just had to watch the city burn. It wasn鈥檛 a nice sight.

We had a pub so we went in the cellar, we didn鈥檛 go into the shelters. We used to just sit and prey that they鈥檇 stop. We could tell when they were coming as the dog we had used to whine, I鈥檓 sure that dog could hear them crossing the channel!

D-Day was important, but VJ Day was important to me. I was in Scotland at the time, the whole of Edinburgh was woken at about five in the morning, the pipe band was out playing and we danced on the streets! The next day everything was free if you were in uniform.
That was really something!

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