BORN DURING SECOND WORLD WAR

Those Leaders who start a war do not know or care what harm they inflict because they are far away in a safe area.

As a very small child you do not understand the danger and just take it in your stride.

You go to bed early to get some sleep because when it gets dark the sirens started. 

Being in a colder climate we used to get dressed, instead of undressed, to go to bed. Then you get woken up. take your dolly or what great possession and go with all the family down into the cellar.

In the winter you have a struggle to get into your coat over all pullovers and cardigans to keep warm.

The grown-ups were talking about the planes approaching. After a few months they could make out if the planes are still loaded with bombs or are already empty. The engines have a deeper sound because of the weight. Sometimes they unloaded the bombs already somewhere else and where on their back home. It meant we could go back to bed earlier.
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That happened every night for a few years. It does not matter who fights whom and destroys which city. It is the people who sit there and cower and hope that it will not hit them. People who had no part in politics as such.

If the planes are still loaded with bombs you can hear their approach and dropping of bombs coming nearer and nearer.  Of course, the very young children just sat there in the cellar and waited to go back to bed. The older children knowing the danger but could not cope with it started to whimpers pegging their mother to help.

All this was forgotten when the war stopped by the very young children. 

One day, I was watching news and there was a report about Beirut being bombed. Before I realised, the sirens went off which went right through me and brought it all back. Before I could switch it off the distance drone of engines came and the thuds of the bombs being dropped also brought it all back.

These leaders who decide to start a war do not know what damage they cause for the rest of the people in their life, leave alone death and destruction.  They are far away from all danger and carry on with their good life.

As I mentioned above, when you are a very small child and do not understand you just take it in your stride. Later on, by some incident the memory comes back.

A friend of mine who was born after the war but still talks about her father coming back from the war very ill and so effected that he would not talk about it, like most of the men.  Her father died in his fifties which was too young and because of the effect from the war. Her mother died soon after.

She will carry the regret, of losing her parents far too early, till her dying days.

Then there are the young soldiers who went out into the war at the age of 20 and came back maimed or lost their lives .

During the last World War millions of young blood was shed and every year there is a Remembrance Day but none of the leaders who attend it will learn from it and stop wars altogether.

It could have been avoided. The Russians suggested sanction  and confiscating the ISIS bank accounts which would have been more effective. Also to stop some nations double dealing of bombing and supplying weapons and money at the same time.

Now again the West bombing Syria and my heart goes out to the civilians. I know what it feels like. It will not make any difference like in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Do not hold the people responsible because they had enough after two World Wars. The people would have never voted for it.

When will mankind ever learn? War does not bring anything but hurt and destruction. The weapon industry will flourish but the weapons they produce bring death and destruction.  The countries which do not get involved in wars do flourish.

A fine example is Switzerland. Why can politicians not follow their example?