Ignorance is Bliss

by Age Concern Salford

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Contributed by: Age Concern Salford
People in story:: Joan McFarlane
Location of story:: From Manchester
Background to story:: Civilian Force
Article ID:: A7943240
Contributed on:: 21 December 2005

My lasting Memory of World War II is…I joined the ARP (Civil Defence) in 1940 (I said I was older than I was). Involved in the Blitz and found that ‘ignorance is bliss’ I saw things that at that young age I should never have seen. I have happier memories of the WLA.

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