Dear Editor:
Since last Thursday, I’ve had several congratulations, compliments and other positive comments from family, friends and other Summerlanders on the Page 15 item in the Summerland Review.
All of which, in my view, belong to Carla McLeod for her caring and thoughtful interview and composition.
One tiny additional detail, the nights of bombing that she mentions were consecutive nights, Nov. 19 to 22, 1940. Nearly 800 people were killed and more than 2,000 were injured, according to Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
There were four additional single night major Luftwaffe air raids on Birmingham during World War II.
Churchill comments, “The spirit of Birmingham shone brightly and its million inhabitants… rode high above their physical suffering.”
Then, as a former First Lord of the Admiralty, he adds, “… no matter where the blow was struck, the nation was as strong as the sea is salt.”
The Clements family was pleased to be a very modest part of that.
Dick Clements
Summerland