Robert Evans

Besides, I was far too excited about leaving school the following month.

He did.

Yeah, he did.

And he's fascinated by it.

Oh, he witnessed it.

He witnessed them finding the corpse.

Or at least that's how he describes it.

It's a little unclear, but I think so.

And this must have happened when he was 14 because he says he left school the following month.

And that 14 is when he graduated, right?

Again, you are kind of in some ways –

Childhood is starting to be more kind of formalized, understood, but there are ways in which you're kind of an adult at 14 in this era, right?

And he's going to be treated like one in some ways.

So after the Dunkirk evacuations, everyone in his town had to put up soldiers for a few days because there was no quartering act in the UK, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And both of his parents become major activists in terms of supporting the war effort.

His mom and dad help organize this big fundraiser in Leeds where they gather a bunch of money from the local community to help pay for the military to build bombers.

And eventually they raise enough to build 250 bombers.

And this is like a huge story in the local papers.

His parents are in the newspaper and being praised for raising money for this charitable cause.