doris white (1986)
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V.E. Day. For each source, write down how that person was affected by the war. Give examples to show your thinking. Which one sums up best what the war meant for most people?. Megan Ryan (1981) . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Doris White (1986).
I think we were spurred on by romantic movies to be little
home-makers. I knew my boyfriend would come home and
we’d get married. I worked like mad and got the house nice,
whitewashed the ceilings and colourwashed the walls. And
after I’d done all that he used to go out every night because
he missed the comradeship. The men missed the war. It felt a
bit of a let-down to be home with the missus and the garden.
They just couldn’t settle.
Mary Smith (1981)
Husbands returned home, each to his private welcome. Mine
returned on 13 November 1945. When my sans saw him the
eldest said, ‘oh, you are my daddy!’ The second said, ‘You are
Mr Smith!’ My youngest, poor little thing, said, ‘Ooh. ‘im?,
the first words he had ever said. This was the first time he
had ever seen his father.
Megan Ryan (1981).
(May 8 1945) I thought of those who had not lived to see this.
Of John, who had stood at the altar with us on our wedding
day... who had been trapped in his cockpit when his plane
sank beneath the waves … Of Ron, who had vanished when
his troopship had been sunk by the Japanese; of Peter, who
had been shot while trying to escape from the prisoner of-war
camp....
They were all so young. The youngest died at nineteen, the
oldest at twenty-four. I sat thinking of them and then went
indoors to stand looking at the sleeping faces of my two little
sons, whose lives lay before them in a world at peace.
V.E. DayFor each source, write down how that person was affected by the
war. Give examples to show your thinking.
Which one sums up best what the war meant for most people?