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As i was born in 1938 i did not know what war ment untill i got older.I must have been about four or five when new somthing was very wrong.When ever an airplane flew over head the fear in my parents got through to me i used to run into the house screeming, iwould hide under the table.Worst of all was the sirens the noise would send me into hysterics even when i was fitted with ear plugs it made no difference.
One day i was sitting by my mother i could hear the lady next door sobbing she semed to be crying all day and night.I asked my mother what was wrong she told me that her son had been killed the ship he was on had been sunk.I have never forgotten the grieve she must have been feeling and i can still hear her now after all these years.
There were good days though my mother was a good cook so we never whent short of good food .I also rember going with my younger brother to the health clinic to fetch our ration of orange juice my mother use to make jelleys with it on our birthdays and it was so good to drink.In 1943 both my brother and i went to stay with my grandmother as mother was having another baby.I now had become afraid of the dark so my gran put a night light in the bedroom for us .In the morning i rember looking at the window and saying to my brother look it looks like the night as the sun shone through the pinholes in the blackout.
It was years later that i got over the terror of airplans and i was over fourty befor i did take the plunge and fly.
The one thing i do rember is the day the war ended as i was standing by the door the the frontroom and i heard on the radio i asked my dad what it ment and he told me the war was over i was the almost seven.I was still afraid of airplans and the sirens for years and even ust to wake up in the night when ever a byplan came over it is only in the few years i now longer worry about them

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