The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 19 John McLeary

If my dad were still alive he’d be 94 on Hiroshima Day. He was born in 1920 in Dundee, the youngest with three sisters. His father, John McLeary, was a mystery man of Irish descent who died when dad was four. Very tough times, he had to leave school and earn a living early on, training to be a carpenter on the tenements going up in Dundee.

When war broke…