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Old October 16th, 2007, 06:53 PM
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Default bombing of the barn, my Dads story

hi,
thought i would share one of my Dad's stories with you of his childhood days in Holland. He doesn't remember the date this happened, but he is very descriptive of what took place. My fathers family was eating breakfast after having done teir morning chores. My grandfather heard the all to familiar sound of aircraft overhead, he rushed outside to see the bombers heading in their direction. They all ran back in to the house to get in the section of wall between the barn and the house, they had put sand in-between the walls for in this room to guard against an attack. One of the bombers dropped the load over the farm, my Grandfather did not understand why they would want to bomb them? He thought it was done by accident, anyway one of the bombs fell quite close to the room where they were hiding. In fact, in the picture you see the barn wall that has blown out, the room to the right of the broken wall is where they were hiding.
My Father remembers very little of what happened afterwards, only that they went outside to look around and see what happened. No one was hurt, not even the livestock. The only damage was the building and a few items inside the house.

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