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Originally Posted by Kyt  |
Given sufficient time I fear the revisionists will have our future generations doubting if in fact WW2 ever took place at all !
During the two odd years that the BBC Peoples War was "open to postings" by members of the public I posted over one hundred stories, none of which concerned the Blitz. I did this as a matter of policy because I decided that my life in the services had enough substance of its own and that I should leave Blitz stories to the thousands of civilians who experienced bombing for over four years.
This did not mean that I did not experience the Blitz at its worst and I still have vivid memories of living in the Stamford Hill area of London while the dock areas were being set on fire on a nightly basis.
The area where I lived was hit again & again by night bombers who dropped their messengers of death completely indiscriminately.
The Blitz took place unremittingly and there is plenty of documentary evidence to support this fact. Every morning Londoners, including myself until 1942, had to get into work in whatever way we could and our morale was high, whether present day writers can understand it or not.
The reality of how people reacted in the Blitz a "myth" ? ........as Dickens would say "Humbug !"
ps
I know my wife would agree with me:
BBC - WW2 People's War - The night our house was sliced in half