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The first two years of the war were a bit dicey I suppose. Czechoslovakia, Poland and Belgium were overrun quickly. Then France capitulated which put all UK military in Europe in dire straits.However the rescues which took place during the Dunkirk episodes were quite amazing.People were exhausted. My husband-to-be (much later) was able to get on a small fishing boat and got across the Channel and they were loaded onto a train wnd had no idea where they were in England, except they were safer and eventually reached an RAF airfield. However people just got on with it and lived life as normally as possible with various situations getting in the way. Air raids and such. Life goes on with or without you so you might as well go with the flow.When I worked for the Admiralty I frequently did nine.am to nine.pm but twice a week I would still get home and change and get to town to the Borough Hall for a couple of hours of ballroom dancing. We had live dance bands. Local or sometimes a big band from London would do a show. Music was very important and rewarding then.Vera Lynn a singer, became famous as the 'Sweetheart of the Forces
 and had a radio show. She also went to military bases to do shows. She was the only entertainer who went out to Burma and sang for the man out in the jungle. After the war she used to do an annual concert in the Albert Hall in London, for all the men who served out in Asia and Lord Louis Mountbatten always attended, since he had been in command in Burma. I think Vera may still be alive. She became quite a good artist later in life. Life at that time was exciting and fun and the Nazis never did manage to stop us. We knew they couldn't of course, even tho there were some people who had no encouragement or belief. So good that President Roosevelt knew better.

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Peg, I just checked and the singer Vera Lynn is still alive, indeed. She is in her 90s.

By the way, though dog meat is not consumed in Japan, I know horse meat is considered to be a local delicacy in some parts of the country. I'm not sure if people are hush-hush about it, since I seem to recall viewing an NHK documentary that mentioned horse sashimi (basashi).
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Greg I am glad she is still alive. She is a tough old broad like me I think. Just gets on with life because Life is good.

I wonder if a samurai from the Warring period would eat his horse? Just thinking.

Also thinking that we eat all sorts of fish but I wonder if anyone would eat one of those fancy Koi we see in garden ponds. they are so beautiful and raised for their colour ut I can't imagine them being cooked and eaten.
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I wonder if a samurai from the Warring period would eat his horse? Just thinking.
LOL! Good question. I'm thinking they would always be busy planning an attack or some kind of new alliance, so they'd find something else to eat.
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Greg, During the Japanese march down through the dense jungle to get to
Singapore. the soldiers existed on rice. Usually one or possibly two small bowls a day. They were used to small rations and in the opposite allied army the soldiers were at loss because they were not used to the jungle or the heat and could not exist on rice. Made every day much more difficult. That is the main reason that Singapore fell Lots of other reasons of course but the jungle was a huge thihg to deal with.

I think the samurai would also eat rice and short rations while on the march or riding horses. Life was tough but men were tougher it seemed to me.
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Yes, I'd imagine the samurai didn't have many options to choose from during the lengthy and brutal battles of the Warring States era.
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I was about to say that I eat horse but I remembered it's actually venison. Wrong four-legged creature. =) Dog meat might actually be good though, it's just that the thought of eating man's best friend is hard to swallow. (Get it? emoticon ) in times of war I'm sure it would happen in a heartbeat to survive. After all, it's meat right?

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I don't know, as a dog lover, I don't think I feel the same way! LOL! But to each their own, I guess. It's interesting that before 1868 and the start of modernization in Japan, most Japanese were pescetarians. Due to strong Buddhist influence, any eating of meat was discouraged. When Japan was opened to the West, eating meat (especially beef) became very popular and fashionable. I'm curious if horse meat is a fairly recent addition to the Japanese diet? I doubt most people eat it, though.
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In times of war it would make no difference to most people. They would not eat dog. We would not eat whale meat during the war, and it was not offered for long. In the worst of times man will eat man and maybe in some remote jungles maybe still do. I'll stick with fish and chicken and/or veggies only, at a push.

I'm like you Greg I am a dog lover for ever.

A distant cousin many years ago used to raise rabbits for a large hotel on the south coast in UK. They were carefully fed, and once skinned and paunched, the chefs would cut them and and cook them and serve them as chicken. That is why you should always ask for a leg of chicken or a breast on the bone. Rabbit carefully prepared tastes like chicken. Cheaper for the hotel of course.

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A distant cousin many years ago used to raise rabbits for a large hotel on the south coast in UK. They were carefully fed, and once skinned and paunched, the chefs would cut them and and cook them and serve them as chicken. That is why you should always ask for a leg of chicken or a breast on the bone. Rabbit carefully prepared tastes like chicken. Cheaper for the hotel of course.
Wow, that is so interesting! Maybe that's where the expression "Tastes just like chicken" came from.
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