Cornerstone Number 182, October-November 2016 | Page 22

Cornerstone No. 182, page 22
destroyed, their childhoods devastated. Did I have the right to protect my
grandchild when so many mothers and grandmothers had been unable to? Was
this just another kind of western privilege?
Simultaneously, I remembered my own mother who, at the age of seven, had
been evacuated from Edinburgh along with her five sisters during the Second
World War. Looking back, the evacuation of children during the war was quite
extraordinary. Of course, this w