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Actually, I think if Archie was more like a cat, he probably wouldn't have left a message at all, whip or no whip . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on March 30, 2014 at 10:02 AM
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Kids feel so powerless to manage events and their own lives, having no idea what the future might hold--but ideas unconstrained by reality. They do have the adults around them to give some sense of safety--that the adults who care for them will manage things by the mysterious ways of adults. They don't know that adults are also children in such times, and don't have answers either.
I do remember that not everyone loved Churchill, and black dogs must have roamed the length and breadth of Britain.
posted by
Ciel
on March 30, 2014 at 8:49 AM
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Well Ciel the black dog he referred to was that horrid black feeling of depression. Think it may be thoughts too miserablel to a analyse, so we as humans convert them into something that feels like pain so it can be contained. A religious experience is different. Incidently Churchill was not that popular at one stage, but as you read history you will know that.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2014 at 8:06 AM
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Well Pat it did really happen. and one little episode I forgot a bus was passing slowly and dad throug a ripe pear through the open window, it hit a sleeping soldier on the side of the head. I asked my dad if it hurt him as he could see higher up than me. No he told me he was soon scrambling down the back of the seat to get the pear. Good luck with the story.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2014 at 7:56 AM
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Top of comments well done A. We won't stand a chance when the bloggit sweetheart come back. Though she did not send me a Koala.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2014 at 7:45 AM
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As one woman told me once as she wept. Her son was at school when the war started and he was killed because he became old enough to fight.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2014 at 7:41 AM
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Those in the cities who experienced and survived the bombing would have a different tale to tell. This does not diminish yours.
I don't know the reference to the black dog.
posted by
Ciel
on March 30, 2014 at 6:28 AM
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I get up cranky some days when the least thing makes me snap
but fortunately nobody's here to play victim. Then I read Blogit and some Facebook stuff and the sun comes back out and I remember I'm lucky to be in the here and now.
I want to make a copy of your poem and put it in the story I'm writing about my mom and dad talking it over in Heaven. After going through his military records and watching old films and reports on WWII, I seem to remember the grim reality of it - your poem tells me the perspective of the children and families in war torn times. I can't believe we haven't - as humans - learned to practice peaceful negotiation instead.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 30, 2014 at 4:56 AM
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not bad for one not in the mood to write
posted by
Annicita
on March 30, 2014 at 4:37 AM
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Excited children at play, told so that one can feel the tradgedy lurking there, all hell about to break loose...excellent poem CCT!
posted by
adnohr
on March 30, 2014 at 3:08 AM
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posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2014 at 12:05 AM
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Yes Bro I just thought we found what we believed to be an unexploded incendiary bomb.
We just threw it back into the ditch good job the ditch is not there any longer.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 30, 2014 at 12:01 AM
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No and it still goes on Justi, and the result hardly ever seems worth the suffering.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 29, 2014 at 11:58 PM
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Yes he will be very nice when he comes down again Naut. Just sorting through papers.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 29, 2014 at 11:55 PM
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I think really Ciel someone who lived through the bombing in a city would be able to tell more of a tale. We just watched the sky at night and sometimes heard the thump of bombs. Remember Churchill saying he had a black dog. I guess we all had one.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 29, 2014 at 11:52 PM
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This is surely one of your most moving poems.
You tell it with all the somber gaiety, and bring in all the senses and the ways people were thinking, knowing what they were knowing. Maybe you could assemble a little book of your memories of war time. It should not be forgotten.
posted by
Ciel
on March 29, 2014 at 10:02 PM
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CCT
Maybe Jeanie burned Archie's toast - that would make anybody snarly, LOL...But that's a great poem of wartime memories...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 29, 2014 at 7:18 PM
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I hope you will get some rest. Yes I do remember that war with a clarity of one much older than I was. We never invaded like you were but our lives and families were invaded.
posted by
Justi
on March 29, 2014 at 5:38 PM
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ChiffChaff
Well a fella would get a bit snarly with age Bro. I remember the sky being filled over Montréal with yellow Harvards being manufactured at Noordyne Aircraft where my brothers Mike and Joe worked as aircraft electricians before they signed up. My memories are of them coming home with nuts and bolts I could turn into soldiers out on the sidewalk with my friends Benjy and Harvie.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 29, 2014 at 5:12 PM
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I hope that you were able to get some rest...You do a great job at bringing the memories to life.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 29, 2014 at 5:03 PM
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