How was your childhood?

I am quite entranced by a piece in the previous UCO Reporter. Avis’ recipe for calla lily sandwiches reflects her childhood. Little girls pushing dolly carriages in the park while mommy made dainty sandwiches like flowers, I expect there were apple and cherry blossoms floating on the sunny breezes too.
I remember UK blackout curtains, gas mask, no meat, no chocolate, refugees, POWs, playing hide n’seek in the bomb craters was fun!
I had a younger friend raised in farmland of NY State, wild berries, fishing, swimming holes, idyllic – not good when they slammed him into Vietnam and Thailand.
How was your childhood?