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Frances is reading letters from 1945, as the Machell Cox siblings experience the end of WW2 and VE Day in May and VJ Day in August.
In this year of 2025, as we acknowledge the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2, the opinions and observations of the siblings clearly bring the events of 80 years ago to life.
Seven of the siblings are in England - Enid, Edmund, Arthur, Bernard, Cuthbert, Avice and Vera, commenting from where they each live.
Aldwyn is still working for the Mission in Malawi, Africa - and his letter survives, describing how they celebrated peace in Europe.
Neville and Wilfred, the remaining two siblings, had died by this point.
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