What are you learning in history?Is it the story of World War One?
Glad you found your introduction to World War One interesting. The War impacted greatly on many people’s lives – my Mother lost her two young brothers who were killed in the fighting, aged 17 and 18 and it destroyed their family. I have found their burial places from the War Graves Commission and it makes harrowing reading just picturing all those thousands of white crosses, row on row. Because of the thousands of young men killed, of course, it meant that thousands of girls never married and a whole generation of babies weren’t born. Sorry, but I had to smile when you said how old 50 years is; I was born before the Second World War and my husband was evacuated from his home and family in London for six long years. My mother hid me under the stairs during the air-raids because as you wandered around blitzed streets you often saw that only staircases remained standing when the rest of the house was scattered everywhere. Talking of age, do you realise that one of the soldiers from the Fi
