On Thu, 12 May 2005 02:36:48 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

Be that as it may, the good people of London chose to continue
business as usual in the face of nightly air raids of hundreds of
bombers, unlike those in DC who abandoned their posts in panic at the
approach of a Cessna 152.

Not really Larry. The truth is wartime travel for most Londoners, as
well as residents of other cities, was very difficult if not nearly
impossible due to wartime restrictions to travel. Londoners "took it"
because there was little else they could do.

Photo's of families that moved into the woods outside the cities to
camp in places they felt were safer than living in the subway tunnels
were suppressed by the government, for obvious reasons: It could have
been a propaganda coup for the Nazi's to indicate that the English
were cracking under the pressure.

The parts of London that were most heavily bombed during the blitz
were in the "east end" which happened to be where most of the city's
poor lived. They would happilly have gone elsewhere rather than be
subjected to nightly bombing, but could not due to their lack of
funds.

Corky Scott