tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post9162106771758390583..comments2023-12-18T07:59:16.525-05:00Comments on Hats and Rabbits: Beautiful Violence?Chris Matarazzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-13253322916816820022015-03-18T12:49:51.605-04:002015-03-18T12:49:51.605-04:00Have you seen Foyle's War? Seems pretty well-r...Have you seen Foyle's War? Seems pretty well-researched in that regard; last episode I watched, in fact, there was much to-do over a coveted onion, so your grandmother's feelings seem to have not been uncommon. I suppose such comforts carried great weight in such inconceivably difficult circumstances.<br /><br />Truly hard to imagine such daily horror. I doff my hat to your mom and all Londoners of her generation. Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-85566578176957964472015-03-17T21:32:55.008-04:002015-03-17T21:32:55.008-04:00I can't begin to imagine what it must have bee...I can't begin to imagine what it must have been like to have lived through an air raid. My mother experienced them for nearly five years and has never been able to sleep properly as a result. Sometime she'd arrive at school and notice an empty desk - one of her classmates had been killed the night before. <br /><br />I asked my mother if she ever saw her parents react emotionally to these events. She said that they never did, although her mother cried once when a gas mantle exploded and showered their meagre weekly sugar ration with tiny shards of glass.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.com