Watching a programme about VE Day the 8th May 1945. It made me think of all the families that must like us grieved their loved ones. In my family my dad brother died in a Japanese prison of war camp ,he left a young son and a wife . It must have been very hard on my Grandmother and Grandfather.I remember my mother saying his body was found by the Americans and reburied two years after the war. There must be a lot more people here have the same sot of stories. God bless us all
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I’ve also thought about how people managed their grief during those horrendous years. Never knowing if sons or dads or husbands would come back.
Were they more stoic or just didn’t talk about their feelings or was it the get up n get on attitude. I don’t know but remembering my aunts n uncles who were born in those times I certainly think they were different to us nowadays but love is the same as it was then.
I also think maybe because so many of them were in the same position and much more open door to everyone they had friends relatives n neighbours to help them through…
We have bloody mobiles…I know which I’d prefer…
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I remember at my dad funeral ,my Aunt { my dad sister] saying my mum cried her eyes out when your dad got his calling up papers at aged 19. So many young people died in the first and Second World War , and the human race never learn