Hello Everyone!
The grief has just welled up again and the tears have flowed because yesterday was mum's anniversary (Aug 2008) and today is the VJ day celebrations and the Red Arrows will fly over Essex later and all I can think of is when dad saw them at Southend Airshow for the first time. I was there with him and I remember the big smile on his face. He died in June last year and I remember him telling mum and I about the school playground in Malaysia being bombed. Being evacuated to the jungle and losing an uncle on the Burmese railway and another uncle being rescued from the Burmese railway only to die a year later. I was very close to dad before becoming a carer mum and I also listened to stories from my grandmother about the war here but mum was born in the war whereas dad was just before the war so he had some memory of it. In my dreams when I was carer I dream that mum was right beside me when I went about my caring duties.
I used to bring dad books from the library about the war to keep him occupied.
MaNaAk
The grief has just welled up again and the tears have flowed because yesterday was mum's anniversary (Aug 2008) and today is the VJ day celebrations and the Red Arrows will fly over Essex later and all I can think of is when dad saw them at Southend Airshow for the first time. I was there with him and I remember the big smile on his face. He died in June last year and I remember him telling mum and I about the school playground in Malaysia being bombed. Being evacuated to the jungle and losing an uncle on the Burmese railway and another uncle being rescued from the Burmese railway only to die a year later. I was very close to dad before becoming a carer mum and I also listened to stories from my grandmother about the war here but mum was born in the war whereas dad was just before the war so he had some memory of it. In my dreams when I was carer I dream that mum was right beside me when I went about my caring duties.
I used to bring dad books from the library about the war to keep him occupied.
MaNaAk