"Never again" was an expression I learned as a child. My mum lived through the Second World War, and when we were children she thought it essential to tell my brother and I about the hardship she endured and horrors she witnessed between the ages of seven and 13.
Dried eggs, rationed meat, sirens wailing and blackout curtains, running to the air raid shelters and being terrified that a bellowing Hitler was going to come straight at her out of the radio. The night she hid under the covers listening to the blanket bombing of a town several miles away, and the distinctive hum of an enemy plane flying over sent fear into her heart.
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