| Wow. That's pretty wild, May. As a child, did you have any understanding of what kind of trouble Britain was in? I mean, did people realize that they could actually lose the war and be conquered by a dictator? Britain has a history much like the US. They only knew freedom for centuries so was the idea of being conquered actually a realistic possibility to the average person? We know in retrospect that the British did rise above it and defeat a foe that was, at least on paper, stronger, but surely you folks couldn’t have known that back then. Were the people in despair or were they confident, what was their general demeanor? |