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Scarsdale

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11. I was born in Liverpool, England.
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:27 AM
Feb 2019

I was a child when the war was raging. Liverpool was bombed, heavily since it was a large shipping port. We all had back yard air raid shelters and were issued gas masks we had to carry everywhere. I went to a place in London, years later where they had WW11 souvenirs. There was an air raid shelter there, where people could go inside and listen to the air raid sirens blaring, the bombs whistling down, and the sounds of planes droning overhead. After all these years, I had to leave, crying. The memories are still with me. My father hated Churchill because at tax time, he reduced taxes on whiskey and cigars instead of items working people needed.

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