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25.6.40 [George Orwell]

June 25, 2010 in America, Germans, Home Service Battalions, Political, War-time, air raid, false alarm, gas masks, left, shelter by orwelldiaries

Last night an air raid warning about 1 a.m. It was a false alarm as regards London, but evidently there was a real raid somewhere. We got up and dressed, but did not go to the shelter. This is what everyone did, i.e. got up and then simply stood about talking, which seems very foolish. But it seems natural to get up when one hears a siren, and then in the absence of gunfire or other excitement one is ashamed to go to the shelter.

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