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Comments:
Norm, York
Very moving.
Shelley
White, Preston.
Thank you for the sacrifice you made during the war years when you were
away from home and family. Because of you and people like you we can live
in freedom.
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Trying Times of War Years by Bill Guest
Tell us
about yourself:
I am an eighty-two-year-old widower with one son and one grandson, both
of whom I think the world of.
I was a
hairdresser for 25 years, then worked for Rowntree’s in York until
I retired. I then did ten years voluntary work along with my late wife
for WRVS in hospitals, Age Concern, etc. I am a member of Beverley Male
Voice Choir and will be singing in the Albert Hall, London with 1,000
voices in aid of Cancer Research.
What’s
your story about?
My story is about the way I felt, and still feel, about the importance
of family love and togetherness.
My feeling ‘why’ 5½ years of my youth were lost –
seeing my family again having been reported missing and presumed prisoner
of war.
Why did
you choose to tell this particular story?
I chose this story as it made me think of what my dad must have felt in
the First World War where he was awarded a medal of honour for saving
the life of a comrade.
Any additional
comments?
I want to thank the BBC and its staff for giving us all, at last, an opportunity
to remember what we all sacrificed during six years of war.
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