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I was a child during WW2 and one thing that has always bugged me is this -

We didn't have any toys, no sweeties, no trips to the beach, no decent clothes and in fact very little of anything because of the War. Everything was short, always.

So how come there was never, ever a shortage of California Syrup of Figs????? It must have come from California, by ship, braving U boats adn God alone what. Never a shortage s though!

I do wish someone would do some serious research into those of us who were children during the war. If you judge a species by the their archeological remains, we don't exist. On the Antique Roashow it is noticeable that all the toys and childhood memerobilia are from either the 1930' or the 1950's. My own childhood isn't there.

Apart from a few photoraphs of Evacuees, we chidlren just don't seem to be there at all. But we were, and I for one have a feeling of intense gratitude for the way we were cherished and looked after, not just by our families, but by countless men who shephereded us into air raid shelters and gave us sweets in a way that makes me so sorry for todays' children to whom to be offered a sweetie by a stranger is such a sinister event.

Still hate California Syrup of Figs, though. I used to have a theory that the Nazi U Boats didn't sink ships carrying the damned stuff as part of a fiendish Nazi plot to inflict torture on English children!

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