Evacuee Or Sins And Comeuppances

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The Evacuee is for those who know ALL about the 1939-45 war
- & for those who should know about it September 1939: five year old Frank is evacuated to Staffordshire
- so that Hitler can bomb Birmingham. During the allocation of billets at the village hall the evacuees are haphazardly assigned good bad & even evil placements. Franks new guardian is an unhappy woman who hates his enforced presence in her home. She scorches the naked boy before a roaring fire; applauds her bully of a son when he brands him with a red-hot peashooter & she teaches Frank to dread irregular bath days
- when his head will be held under the water to the point of drowning. For the next three years young Frank tries to avoid her nastiness by staying small. At school although the city kids blossom under Father Daniels gentle guidance they are venomously subjugated by a fearsome nun teacher the Black Cow. The antipathy of the Staffordshire village is superficial though. Some memories will remain with the evacuees forever like the memories of school church helping on the farm brass bands pig sticking the people the canal friendships & adventures in the foreign countryside
- as they survive laugh play & grow up. They will also remember the comeuppances
- including one final shocking event.