Freud_Burlingham_1943_War_and_Children_k_text

Pamela woke up as usual and asked to beput on the pot but remained completely obliviousof the bombing. The two babies Grahamand Roy woke once and cried for a whilebut since that happened nearly every night,is difficult to determine whether it had anyconnection with the outside noises.Everybody slept in the shelter after the"All Clear". The morning, of course, wasdifferent than usual. Whoever came in fromthe outside brought tales of damage and destruction.Our old job man who lives in amore exposed district can, on such occasions,hardly be stopped from counting corpses andrevelling inlike to listen eagerly.lurid details to which the childrenIn the garden, later in the morning, the childrenhad occasion to watch an airplane inthe sky.An adult said: "Look, it is writing!"A statement which Pamela corrected by saying:"Only scribbling."None of the children seemed to connect thesight of an airplane with the idea of possibledanger. Still, the children seemed rather morerestless or excitable than usual as a result of thetales which they had overheard.They were watched playing a new kind ofgame. Some of them climbed up on the junglegym, and regardless of danger to those stand-105it