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- ateamwar
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- John Airey
- Location of story:听
- Liverpool
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4993185
- Contributed on:听
- 11 August 2005
When I was a young boy, an only child, I played football every minute of the day.
I was obsessed with football like most boys, especially on a Saturday morning at Garston Park, where there used to be football matches.
At the time of the invasion, my mother woke my father up; 鈥淚鈥檝e had a dream about Jack. I went to the park and nobody was playing football. I asked the folk why they weren鈥檛 playing, they said we can鈥檛 start because Jack is missing!鈥 She woke my father up 鈥 and at that particular time I was captured and was a P.O.W.
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