Thirteen/WNET New York WLIW 21
New York War Stories : Your Memories. Your Words.

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Submitted by: Agnes B. Sherman

Although I can't remember the exact date, I clearly remember sitting with my mother & father in the library of our house in Connecticut. The small brown radio was tuned to the BBC & we heard the marvelously strong, assured English voice of Winston Churchill, declaiming against the Nazis, a work he pronounced with a slurred lisp, which added a reptilian nuance to his pronouncements.

I was too young (7) to understand what was happening, but will never forget the emotional impact the speech had on my usually cheerful mother, who had been a nurse posted in France during WWI. I had never seen my father, always calm & reasonable, so upset.

It was this scene that later helped me understand the upheaval that was to come & prepared me for the disruptions that came later.