Feature Letter of September 8th, 2025
Quinlan, Dennis John
Dearest Mum -
I haven't got an awful lot of news to tell you again this week. Things have been quiet all week, our course goes on but it's very seldom that we ever work too hard - in fact never! Have put some few hours in the air, some of them at night which was quite an interesting experience - England certainly looks blacker from the air than it does from the ground....Things are still very quiet over here - all eyes of course being forward at present on the Russian campaign & on U.S.A. It's really the most amazing country - to read the papers you would get the opinion that the country was one mass of petty bickerings & differences of opinion from end to end. A shopkeeper fined L10 for charging 1/2d too much for some lemons or some Lord so & so is fined L12,000 for keeping funds abroad; or the army wants better pay; the coal-miner wants more cheese; the WAAF wants cuter hats; the nurses want new uniforms - On and on it goes but above it all there is that indomitable courage & strength of purpose to see it through. Father, Mother & child all prepare grimly yet good - humouredly to dig in for another winter - but with unshakeable confidence in the ultimate conclusion.
Lord, I would tremble indeed to be among the enemies of such a country as this!
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