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My mother , Pamela Russell was born in 1933 and was evacuated from Ramsgate. Hoverver she has always been aginst war and this is the reason why.
During june 1940 they were suddenly told they were being evacuated to London and were told to pack and head to the railway station. When they got to the station there was a large number of troops in a cordon around the station , but they were ushered through and loaded onto the train before it left for London.
This in its own seems very unsuprising and hardly worthy of note, until you note the date , june 1940, all of the cordon of troops were not guarding the station , but waiting for evacuation themselves. Not a single soldier was armed , nor indeed capable of fighting as all of them to a man were evacuees themselves , from Dunkirk and to a man they were casualties of war themselves as all were wounded. In thier own moment of need , for treatment and safety they gave up the only train at the station so the children could be evacuated in case the germans attacked the coast.
My mother was forever haunted by those memories , but she remembers the humour and the honour of those men , even in defeat, and the sacrifice given by them to total strangers.

I want to salute those brave man who gave so mutch, some of whome paid for there generosity with a lack of treatment or worse with thier lives and all of whome did so without even a question as to why. To them we owe so mutch and have no way to repay our dept.

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