I just wanted to discuss and make it known that WW2 caused much change - not just to the immediate generation that were adults in the war and the children of the war but for the grandchildren after the war. I was born in 1961. I never knew my grandad - he was a soldier in The Black Watch and was blown-up by a landmine ... it left my grandmother a widow with two daughters to bring up alone. I have never really discussed her grief at losing her husband but she never re-married and instead devoted herself to her grandchildren - her own two daughters married and sadly one daugher died suddenly about 8 years ago - her other daughter (my mum) was severely affected by losing her dad and as a result never fully developed as an adult.
Everything that happened in the war has had a knock-on effect for generations ... I count myself lucky as I am a happy adult with a greta partner - but I look at what the war did to my grandmother and mother and I feel sadness ... also a great many families who lost husbands and fathers never recovered - emotionally and financially - and this I feel made growing up quite difficult for many fatherless families. I can only wonder what chances for many people were lost. A just war but at such a terrible price for so many.
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