It was terrible years but as far as friendship was concerned it was the best years of my life. You know that. That’s right George. Every body was working hard for one goal to defend our country. Now if you get a spirit like that among people its great. There’s some difference by today that seems to have gone quite a bit. At that time everybody helped everybody. You would have never gone past somebody that needed help.

It was a I think it was a difficult time for everybody and everyone has there own memories but it was also a time as so often the case in a time of trouble people do blend together and they bond together better so I think there was a lot of very good neighbourliness a lot of people looking after each other and that out of bad always comes good and that was a good thing that came out of the war years as how people helped one another how if my mother maybe ran out of tea and my mother was like me her tea was very precious to her and a neighbour could be sure to step in and well I can give you some until you get your ration again.