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Hi I have an interest of the WW2 because of my parents endurance and compassion and they remained non bitter.

I know that their story would be like thousands of others during that time and that my parents had no more and no less hardships than people all over the world. However, to forget what they went through would be like these special people in my life lived through it for nothing.

I am interested in other areas of service during wartime Britain becuase I do understand that my parents experiences were not the only experiences.

My dad probably influenced my way of thinkning about the war in early years and so did one or two older friends. They were prisoners of war.

I have attended events like fourties weekends in Howarth to try and get a feel of civilian life during those times. I take my neice who is 11years old to the local museum when they have held wartime memories events. Especially the blitz in Coventry.

My family on both sides led a very chequered life in some ways. Dad coming from a military background of his own father, and mum coming from a family whom most gave their time (and life in one case) to the RNLI.

None of this of course affected me in my upbringing because they only showed love and determination and true grit after the war, becuase times were hard. Let's not forget that either.

Mum and dad had other hurdles to face when I was born in the fifties with multipul disablities, and my brother was born with very accute sight impairment. I was a weedy, sickly kid because of my disabilities and the intense cold of the houses, shortage of money and having other familly members staying because of the housing shortage.

Life got better as time when on but dad always suffered various tummy troubles with, what I believe to be the cause, being nearly starved during five years of capture at Dunkirk. ( and the stigma that went with being captured) Together with the forced march in the last bitter winter of the war when they all endured a forced march around the baltic coast. Soemthing that I want to write about is his life as a contribution to the 大象传媒 World War Two memories.