What is a Memory?

A Memory is the mental facultly of retaining and recalling past experience and the act or an instance of remembering (The Free Dictionary)

Memories are triggered by things that happen in our lives or sounds, perhaps smells or by seeing something like a photograph or picture or maybe a television programme.

We store many memories in our minds that we can recall in many different ways and on different occassions. Admittedly they are not all good, some can be ones we would rather forget but it would only be in an ideal world that we remembered only the good things.

Sometimes we lose the ability to remember and this is called amnesia. On other occassions as in the onset of dementia, memory loss occurs but sometimes the sufferer of dementia has a very vivid recall of memories and actually lives the memory as though it were happening to them.

With a generation who remember their participation and living through World War 2 slowly dying out we are at risk of losing a lot of memories and information of the past. What was it like as a child in the war years? Can you remember your father, uncle, brother coming home from War? Can you remember what rationing was like? Were you moved to the Countryside for the duration of the War?

Please feel free to share some of these Memories here with our readers.