Anita Sinclair

I’m asked from time to time if the Corona Virus Pandemic, Covid 19, that has been experienced world wide, is perhaps something like World War Two. Others of my generation and early history are probably hearing this same question.

Apples and Oranges.........We’re asked to compare two unlike entities. I can understand why.

During the period of time and with the events tackled by this book, the child I was knew:- people were dying; homes, businesses and social systems destroyed.

We see those parallels today.

However ... the people of WW11 knew: who the enemy was; who and what to fight.

People knew, or believed they knew, the right (next) thing to do, the action to take. To get on with it. To beat this thing. People met in the various ways and places where they had access to each other. They touched, hugged, loved, talked and shared, fed, rescued, nurtured and healed.

My generation has carried what I now know is called, ‘Post Traumatic Stress Disorder’.