tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post9083490918062431841..comments2024-03-13T08:18:08.922+10:30Comments on Catdownunder: It was D-Day yesterdaycatdownunderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189081688973141295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post-18143393004616847362014-06-08T08:03:29.965+09:302014-06-08T08:03:29.965+09:30I wasn't born then and I cannot remember any e...I wasn't born then and I cannot remember any event like that in my own early life. We lived in a small country town when I was a toddler and although I had some very traumatic things happen to me I don't think any involved air-craft. (I suspect too much imagination does not help.)catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1663680578112260744.post-13975864751190271042014-06-07T09:27:22.665+09:302014-06-07T09:27:22.665+09:30I have a memory similar to yours. I was born mid ...I have a memory similar to yours. I was born mid WWII and lived at my grandmother's place in Sydney's inner west, not far from water as the crow flies.<br /><br />I have never liked searchlights, even at air shows or similar. They make me feel very uneasy.<br /><br />Only a few years ago, I was talking to someone around my age. He mentioned the same feeling, quite unprompted by me and suggested it came from the mini-sub attacks on Sydney harbour from that night.<br /><br />I finally realised the source of my fear. I would have heard sirens and very likely seen the lights. I can remember the glass in the French doors at grandmother's house wing being taped to stop shattering. I guess there was also quite possibly discussion among the adults who did not realise the effects on the toddler nearby.<br /><br />Dad was in the Army, although based in Australia in a unit kept fairly secret. He too spoke little of the time there and he would not attend reunions, marches etc.<br /><br />Perhaps there is something you have had happen too like that. I still feel very uneasy if I see a searchlight and very occasionally have bad dreams of an unknown enemy strafing the harbour. That connection just occurred to me as I wrote this. What secrets the mind holds!Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04324917828815299886noreply@blogger.com