tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post3056468866765974770..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: A Sense of Place (continued): Sue PurkissMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-79192039784310305732011-09-22T10:17:51.379+01:002011-09-22T10:17:51.379+01:00Just catching up on balaclava Sue and wanted to sa...Just catching up on balaclava Sue and wanted to say how moving I found the account of your Polish journey. I rememember talking with you about your hopes to write your dad's story in Bath last year. Good that it's all coming together. Books like this are SO important.Sue Barrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04865820856646579688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-45917477747917026842011-09-17T01:26:17.567+01:002011-09-17T01:26:17.567+01:00If I really was a cat my fur would have rippled - ...If I really was a cat my fur would have rippled - I would have sensed ghosts. It was the same feeling I had when a taxi driver in Rotterdam took five of us on a small detour because a young, rather smart-alec sort of journalist travelling on the same ship as the rest of us had said "The war is over. You should forget about it." The taxi driver took us past a bomb site that still had not been cleared and said, "The war is over yes. If we do not want it to happen again, we will remember that." That was 1972 and I don't know about the journalist but I have not forgotten. CatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-25300995776875032592011-09-16T13:32:15.402+01:002011-09-16T13:32:15.402+01:00Thanks for your lovely comments, everyone! But, Ca...Thanks for your lovely comments, everyone! But, Cat: what does 'Oh!' mean...?Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-57602358583429096542011-09-16T12:56:23.415+01:002011-09-16T12:56:23.415+01:00Excellent post, Sue. And I do like your point that...Excellent post, Sue. And I do like your point that we see history with the ending built in, dominating our perceptions, whereas those who lived through it were in a state of uncertainty. Odd how hard it is to realise that!!Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-62983284200283576972011-09-16T11:05:55.948+01:002011-09-16T11:05:55.948+01:00Sue, this is such an atmospheric post, and immense...Sue, this is such an atmospheric post, and immensely moving. I'm particularly struck by your mention of how, to your father and his fellow prisoners, Dunkirk represented a disaster. So easy to forget that now. And to think of being swallowed into a POW camp at that point in the war... and presumably hearing no news for a long time of how things were going? It must have been desperately hard to fight off despair.H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-23878601333327246182011-09-16T09:47:28.498+01:002011-09-16T09:47:28.498+01:00Oh!Oh!catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-49691298801925053192011-09-16T08:44:57.533+01:002011-09-16T08:44:57.533+01:00You made me feel it. Thanks for this and your ear...You made me feel it. Thanks for this and your earlier post.Joan Lennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15763862159032836768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-87683217841239594332011-09-16T08:28:59.325+01:002011-09-16T08:28:59.325+01:00This is wonderfully evocative and touching, Sue. I...This is wonderfully evocative and touching, Sue. It's good to have a place to visit for these family connections with history. I've tried, but with less success. Still, even being in roughly the right place helps to lift the veil a little.Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.com