The Great Dog and Cat Massacre

[Catherine]

They killed the animals before there was any need to ration anything. They did not know the rationing would be so severe. They did not know the war would last so long. It was a completely irrational response.

The evacuees did not have an easy time of it and their parents didn't do well either. Your husband's experience was extreme, but not uncommon. Some children had a worse time. The idea might have seemed good, but they totally disrupted lives and many people never recovered. As a soldier my mother lined up those children and marched them away from their parents. She didn't care about them or feel sad that they were being taken from their parents. She just did her job. She never once sad to me she was sorry she had done it.

You and Misty and I would have found a way to share rations and make do with what we had.

I am surprised that they did not have some major disease outbreaks after they killed all those cats.