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Re: RP
Well thank you RP . I do remember a pain held me through those years. 
posted by
C_C_T
on March 9, 2016 at 6:48 AM
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Re: Krisles
I am so glad that you are feeling better. It is funny but one seems to remember little things as on becomes older. Of course those we hope we might deal with when the time comes is entirely different.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 9, 2016 at 6:42 AM
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Magnificent! Stunning! Poignantly told. This should be a movie or a show of some sort. No one has ever done a project focusing on WW II from the Point of View of a child such as yourself at that age! Just wonderful. Thank you, thank you. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on March 8, 2016 at 9:00 PM
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Very powerful....the images so personal and clearly painted. I loved that in the midsdt of it all there was still the child, able to pick up ball bearings. I tried to decide my favorite line...several rich ones...but, I can remember this image so well myself, and yet ihadn't thought about it in years:
a wisp of smoke rises
just like a cigarette in the cinema.
posted by
Krisles
on March 8, 2016 at 6:02 PM
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Re:Naut
Thank you Naut. We had to go a long way to another school because the infants School was devastated by a couple of stray bombs. The strangest thing that happened later at a another school was a boy looked out of the window and a massive round object came floating down on a parachute we all rushed to the strip plastered window to watch it.The teacher went berserk afterwards although she probably looked as well. If it had been a live land mine it would have been curtains. Fortunately it was a dud. 
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C_C_T
on March 8, 2016 at 11:56 AM
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CCT
I fully agree with Pat! You masterfully evoke a war and an era in a way that is so touching because of the simple images and experiences of childhood...
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Nautikos
on March 8, 2016 at 11:17 AM
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Re: If I ever read about what war does to kids, your piece today is it!
Thank you Pat. The only reason I can think of why Mum only put those sandwiches up for me was she had to do two more lots and then some for Dad and herself. Subconsciously she may have thought we were lucky. There was hardly any food in the house when she was a child. She told me she would feel over the shelves for a piece of bread that was not there.Her Dad went to fight in the First War and no money came for the first month or two.Fortunately in little villages folk tried to help neighbors.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 8, 2016 at 9:43 AM
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Re: FS
Yes one had to put up with it FS.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 8, 2016 at 9:34 AM
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I remember those school days, not wanting to go to school. Fortunately, it did get better with time.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 8, 2016 at 9:27 AM
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If I ever read about what war does to kids, your piece today is it!
Oh. My. God. If you could see me, you'd see me bowing to honor you. I always catch the steel girder inside your soft and gentle structures, but wow! Thank you for all this and the flowers... 
posted by
Pat_B
on March 8, 2016 at 4:05 AM
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