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#1: Untitled Drabble Author: DotLocation: Ireland PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:37 pm


Joey - 1944

Joey sat drinking her tea, trying to ignore the sounds of the air raid, which was raging near by.
She dreaded to think of the havoc in the streets, of those who were dead or dying or injured, or who had lost loved ones or their homes. Not just in Britain but in Europe too. Every night it was the same, lives torn apart by this foul and senseless war. Joey prayed constantly that her babies, Jack and she along with Madge, Jem and their children would live to see the end of this war. The danger was not yet over for them yet but she was inclined to agree with Jack’s prediction that the Allies would be victorious by next summer. The defeat of the Third Reich miraculously now seemed imminent. Much had happened lately to send their hopes high, lift their spirits, and gladden their weary hearts.


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#2:  Author: JackieJLocation: Kingston upon Hull PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:40 pm


Ooooh.... a nice start.... long may it continue.

As for naming it, from the start you've given us The Maynards at War or Joey's War maybe?

JackieJ

 


#3:  Author: LesleyLocation: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:39 pm


Nice teaser to start. Need a little more detailbefore being able to suggest a title. Laughing

 


#4:  Author: DotLocation: Ireland PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 12:02 pm


A little bit more!

Two months ago, on the sixth of June, a great fleet of ships had sailed from England to France, and British, Canadian and American troops had stormed the beaches of Normandy. D-Day had been an outstanding success for the Allies. And just a week ago, on the 25th of August, General Leclerc had liberated Paris from German occupation and domination. The captured German General Dietrich von Choltitz then handed the French capital back to the French.

On the following day General Charles De Gaulle had marched down the Champs Élysées to the Place de la Concorde leading a triumphant parade among the cheers and rejoicing of the exultant flag-waving French citizens.

Edited to satisfy Chelsea!


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#5:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:33 pm


Not Joey's War, unless it's subtitled 'We Couldn't Have Bacon for Breakfast Every Day'

 


#6:  Author: ChelseaLocation: Your Imagination PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:10 pm


This is off to a very good start Dot.

I cannot think of a title yet though.

And, I'm forced to add (stems from school in France where the history teacher said that Canada wasn't in the War) that Canada also landed on the beaches during D-Day (Juno Beach, to be specific). Pedantic and annoying I know, I just got so annoyed at this teacher (and the textbooks), that this is now a bit of a pet peeve of mine.

 


#7:  Author: AnnLocation: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:10 pm


Jennie wrote:
Not Joey's War, unless it's subtitled 'We Couldn't Have Bacon for Breakfast Every Day'


LOL!

 


#8:  Author: EllieLocation: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:14 pm


I like this Dot, looking forward to seeing where it goes next.
I skip the title suggestions though, I'm useless at them myself.

 


#9:  Author: LesleyLocation: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:39 pm


Like it Dot. More please.

(Agrees with Chelsea.)

 


#10:  Author: DotLocation: Ireland PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:30 pm


Why thank you for all your lovely comments. Much appreciated! I think you deserve a bit more!

Joey also kept herself informed by reading the papers as often as she could, and she and Jack listened to the daily news bulletins on the wireless, most particularly when Winston Churchill broadcast to the nation.

Joey revered Winnie, as the British people affectionately called him, and she had ever since he had become Prime Minister on the 10th of May 1940.

To Joey, Churchill was a man of honour and bravery, and the personification of all that was best in this island race of Britons … robust, uncomplaining, strong, resolute and just. He was an inspiration to her and every other ordinary person in England and to those in the fighting forces, and he gave each and every one of them a bit of his tremendous courage, instilled in them his own strength of will to keep going against all odds.

In part, he did this through his extraordinary rhetoric and magnificent oratory, which never failed to touch and move her. In fact his words captivated her, and they forever reverberated in her head. Much of what he had said at different times she knew by heart, and she frequently found herself drawing strength from his words. And repeatedly she gathered hope from them when things looked bleak, or when she was filled with despair.

 


#11:  Author: LesleyLocation: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:54 pm


Excellent - that man gave all fighting the Axis hope.

Thanks Dot.

 


#12:  Author: DotLocation: Ireland PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:36 pm


More! I'm taking a few days to write the next bit. I have to decide to include a particular bit or not.

Her mind slid back to the time she had first heard him speak in the summer of 1940, just after Dunkirk, when he said, ‘We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.’ And as she had listened to the radio that day, her own courage had been fortified and renewed because of him.

In that same month of June, not long before France fell, when the whole world had wondered out loud what England would do, Winston Churchill had vowed that the English would battle on alone. And he told his countrymen and women, in that majestic and sonorous voice of his, ‘Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”

And she had wept as she had listened to him. For her deepest emotions had been stirred, and she was filled with pride and love for this man who was setting such an remarkable and fearless example for them, and for the rest of the world. She had taken great heart after hearing this speech for she had come to understand fully, that with a leader like Churchill, Britain could not fail to win the war. However long it took, they would inevitably succeed, because he was determined to lead them to victory.

And in this summer of 1944 they were winning.

It will soon be over, Joey thought. The hostilities will end finally, and we will be able to start leading normal lives again … and we will be able to pick up the threads of the past…

~*~

 


#13:  Author: LesleyLocation: Rochester, Kent PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:06 pm


Thank you Dot, feel that Joey's thoughts were echoed by so many in Britain at that time.

 


#14:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:51 pm


Gosh, Dot a marvellous beginning.

 


#15:  Author: Elisabeth PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:36 pm


Loving this loads. So nice to have a really serious drabble. Pleeeeeeeeeease write loads MORE!

How about "Joey on the Home Front" or "A Tough Time for the Chalet School"

 


#16:  Author: JennieLocation: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:09 pm


I do find this ironic in many ways. We fought so hard for our freedom and for other countries' freedom, too, and look at what Blair and his minions are hell-bent on doing!

 


#17:  Author: SusanLocation: Carlisle PostPosted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:04 pm


Jennie wrote:
I do find this ironic in many ways. We fought so hard for our freedom and for other countries' freedom, too, and look at what Blair and his minions are hell-bent on doing!


I totally agree!

 




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