When the first siren sounded I took
my children to our dug-out in the
garden and I was quite certain we
were all going to be killed. Then the
all-clear went without anything
having happened. Ever since we
came out of the dug-out I have felt
sure nothing would ever hurt us.Or consider this, from the diary of a
young woman whose house was shaken
by a nearby explosion:
I lay there feeling indescribably
happy and triumphant. “I’ve been
bombed!” I kept on saying to myself,