Play / pause Lack of military support

Lack of military support

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A lot of information

And I found out

the girls that had lost their husbands,

well, not far from Western Super Mare,

based,

and RAF personnel nearby,

a lot of help.

Whereas Leicestershire isn't noted

Yeah, there's not, you know, it's

So eventually that help wasn't there.

I've got to say one thing, though.

I also found out that,

We told your brothers.

I've got two brothers,

They should have told me

And it didn't get beyond them.

Oh, oh, well, yeah, yeah, you're busy.

Oh, we've been busy.

It would have been nice to have had

I'd seen an eye, an article,

association, and my son got Anthony.

Christopher said, you know,

So I phoned up, there was a phone number

the regional organiser for Leicester,

I spoke to a lady called Pearl Moran,

come along and we've got a coffee morning.

Come along to that.

Well, actually, it was not a coffee

But I went along

there was this group of us

We were all service widows

and some of them, their husbands had died

as a result of an illness.

Some War Widows association women,

Didn't matter.

You have that background

And then I met Jackie Towell

and, bless her, she said,

I think you ought to be a member of

somebody there who understands RAF life.

Because RAF life is different

It is different.

So to know that there's somebody there

But if I need to talk to somebody,

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