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Scarsdale

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26. We lived in Liverpool, England.
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 07:31 AM
Dec 2019

Everyone in our neighborhood had their own backyard air raid shelter. I was 4 when the war began, nine when it ended. I remember the air raid sirens, the hum of planes, the bombs whistling down. We all had personal gas masks we had to carry everywhere. Just a few years ago I was in London. We visited a re-enactment of an air raid. There was a shelter just like ours and when you went in, the sirens sounded and all the sounds from the war started. I had to leave, crying after all these years. I often wonder if I had PTSD, since my entire life I have dreaded conflict. I can not bear to have people mad at each other, or yelling. War is not the answer to anything, except maybe to people who have never been in one. Liverpool was heavily bombed, because of the ships coming into port with supplies. The trains taking supplies from the docks were bombed.

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Ivanka True Blue American Dec 2019 #21
Ivana, his first wife. yardwork Dec 2019 #28
Right, I added a K. True Blue American Dec 2019 #32
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I know True Blue American Dec 2019 #36
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But I have read Timmygoat Dec 2019 #18
His Grandfather True Blue American Dec 2019 #22
He emigrated at 16, leaving home alone for the new world. Hortensis Dec 2019 #43
They love him in Germany? Scarsdale Dec 2019 #19
I'm feeling awe and "wow." Ilsa Dec 2019 #25
We lived in Liverpool, England. Scarsdale Dec 2019 #26
Wow--you lived through a lot. panader0 Dec 2019 #30
My BIL True Blue American Dec 2019 #33
You could not have lived through that without True Blue American Dec 2019 #37
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At the Imperial War Museum? greenjar_01 Dec 2019 #46
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Years after the war, I married an Scarsdale Dec 2019 #54
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He would have done great in Germany. Marcuse Dec 2019 #23
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link? Demonaut Dec 2019 #55
No link. I caught the last couple of minutes on YouTube. He starts in about the 1:58 mark. catbyte Dec 2019 #56
At the very end of his speech blaze Dec 2019 #57
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