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REGISTER PUBLICATIONS 2012 ©
NOVEMBER
2012
DOWN MEMORY LANE
May we never know war as Edna and Hilda
Our bingo game had finished and we began to visit for a while. Soon the subject turned to how it was when we grew up. Edna began talking in her soft English accent. Suddenly, all was quiet. Born in 1935, she explained that she was a child in England during World War II. Edna shared that when the sirens would announce an air raid, her family would head for shelter built in their back yard. Her school also had shelter. Although the bombs never destroyed anything near her home, she could see the flames made by the phosherus bombs dropped on the faroff cities. One did take out the back end of her grandmother’s home that was a distance away. She continued to live in what was left of the house. When she visited, Edna was not allowed to play in the ruble. Her father, who lost six brothers in the war, did not have to go. He had the assignment of seeing after the welfare of those in their com-
munity. Edna clearly remembers there was a great celebration when the war was over. She later came to the US when she had the opportunity because she knew England would take long to recover. DORIS And there I sat with BUTT my childhood recollections of make-believe war games played with my imaginary playmate Mert, totally innocent of what war was really like. My father was too old for the service, (Ray and our son’s service age fell in peace time.) Edna’s recollections of her childhood in war torn England stayed with me, so when I heard of Hilda, whose childhood was spent in Germany during the war, I asked her to share her story of how it was. When we met the first thing, she shared a group of photos from her youth. One I chose to share with you. Hilda, third from the right, is with her sister and brothers. Children of war, I call them. Like Edna’s experiences, Hilda, born in 1931, shared the sirens, the shelter runs and fiery nighttime views. She was not in a tar-
Doris Butt's aquaintance Hilda let her copy this cherished photo of her and her siblings from their childhood in World War II Germany. Butt counts her blessings as a child in America, and that today's children do not have to know war the way Hilda did. get area; however, the planes bombing the Hilda’s father was called to the service cities would sometimes drop their left over early because he was educated and they bombs at random. SEE WAR, PAGE 13
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