used to be afraid to sort of speak to them, cos i used to think, oh, what i say? you know. it was hard on all of them. some of them suffered terrible ptsd when they came back. you know, it was awful. when i wrote letters to all- the fathers of the guys that i knew, the young guy from cardiff, - bless him, another from cardiff, his name was griff 22, griffiths, he was from cardiff, my batman was killed, a young boy of 19. - so, yeah, it was a difficult time. it killed my father, definitely. i mean, he was only 56 when he died, you know. he was still very young himself. so, but. ..there we are. we had sent a letter to stephen, didn t we, to tell him how we felt and, you know, he loved him and that, and it got sent back, and that was my father finished then, cos he never got to see the letter. for bernie mills, the end of the conflict came a day too late.
i used to be afraid to sort of speak to them, cos i used to think, oh, what do i say? you know. it was hard on all of them. some of them suffered terrible ptsd when they came back. you know, it was awful. when i wrote letters - to all the fathers of the guys that i knew, the young guy from cardiff, bless him, i another from cardiff, his name was griff i 22, griffiths, he was from cardiff a young boy of 18 was killed. - so, yeah, it was a difficult time. i it killed my father, definitely. i mean, he was only 56 when he died, you know. he was still very young himself. so, but. ..there we are. we had sent a letter to stephen, didn t we, to tell him how we felt and, you know, we loved him and that? and it got sent back, and that was my father finished then, cos he never got to see the letter. for bernie mills, the end of the conflict came a day too late. her brother,
to think, oh, what i say? you know. it was hard on all of them. some of them suffered terrible ptsd when they came back. you know, it was awful. when i wrote letters to all- the fathers of the guys that i knew, the young guy from cardiff, - bless him, another from cardiff, his name was griff 22, griffiths, he was from cardiff, my batman was killed, a young boy of 19. - so, yeah, it was a difficult time. it killed my father, definitely. i mean, he was only 56 when he died, you know. he was still very young himself. so, but. ..there we are. we had sent a letter to stephen, didn t we, to tell him how we felt and, you know, he loved him and that, and it got sent back, and that was my father finished then, cos he never got to see the letter. for bernie mills, the end of the conflict came a day too late. her brother, christopher thomas, died the day before the surrender.