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- steveleigh76
- People in story:听
- amilia harrop flynn
- Location of story:听
- liverpool
- Article ID:听
- A2526392
- Contributed on:听
- 16 April 2004
During the war most of our street had to hide in a basement of an old house every time we heard the air raid sirens. It happened mostly of a night. I would look out of the window and see my neighbours walking to the house, some with children. I would make my way to the house and my friends would always be in the same corner huddled together. After an hour we expected the MP鈥檚 to come and do a count, this happened every time we were there, this involved us leaving the safety of the shelter, leaving the hot sugarless tea behind and lining up against a wall. None of us compared this with being lined up against the wall and being shot by the Nazis, we were all too sensible for that. After the count we had to stay in the basement for the remainder of the night, listening to those bombers hour after hour was awful, but like lots of things during the war you adapted, not by choice but by the need to survive.
The next day was pretty much the same. The siren, the droll walk to the basement, but this time one of my friends was missing, where was she had she been killed in one of the attacks earlier on in the day? No she was just late, she ran in about an hour later, dressed only in her white nighty and slippers. We didn鈥檛 ask. It was almost time for the MPs to do their count, so we decided to play a joke on them. We got our friend Claire, nighty Claire to go outside to wait for the MPs. It was about half one in the morning. We got Claire on to the wall, the moon shone brightly behind her. The MPs walked up to the house, they looked up, Claire opened her arms wide and looked down on the MPs. When they looked up she screamed and pointed at them. I have never heard soldiers scream and run away so fast in all my life. It made our night and year.
Some times little things like that get you through the rough times that鈥檚 my little story of the war, thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed it.
The end.
Stephen@leigh2394.fsnet.co.uk
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