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- CovWarkCSVActionDesk
- Article ID:
- A5536028
- Contributed on:
- 05 September 2005
'This story was submitted to the People's War site by Rick Allden of the CSV BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Action Desk on behalf of Tony Walker and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions'.
Serious Business
Sure as sure I would remember it if it came into my hands again: like a lost love.
Strange to talk about a gun like that, I know, but I had it a long time and my hands would remember the reassuring feel of it: the smoothness of it and the weight and the balance. My hands today would reach out for the mend my father made to it where I damaged it, handling it carelessly. Yes, I was young and careless then and unknowing in the arts of war.
But I was only six and the gun only carefully carved wood, mended with a single 1”x 10 csk steel screw.
This story was donated to the People’s War website by Tony Walker, of the Leam Writers. If you would like to find out more about Leam Writers call 0845 900 5 300.
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