Chuchill War Rooms

Today we went to see Churchill's war rooms and the museum comprising of what life was like for Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 40's and 50's. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. The cabinet room is where he directed the war from and had over 100 cabinet meetings. The war rooms became operational in August 1939, shortly before the outbreak of war in Europe. They remained in operation throughout the Second World War, before being abandoned in August 1945 after the surrender of Japan.

This was my favorite class trip that we have been on and it really did a great job of making you feel like you were there. They made this museum feel like you were in the room and made it cold, dark and lonely. Once I got out I was just happy to be out of the cave like museum. One fun fact about Churchill is that he woke up and drank whiskey and water for breakfast every morning and always had a cigar in his mouth... The man was a straight boss. He had so much power that when he would walk in a room people would become silent. They wanted to hear every word he had to say, they would hang on every syllable. He knew he had power and everyone knew it too. This was extremely evident when looking at the paintings and toys of him. Most of them had his face with a pitbull as the body which showed his tough tenacious way. He was able to use that power to calm down his people and try to explain that everything would be alright. The way he used language to overcome what the war was going to his people was an amazing feat. It was extremely difficult to keep anyone at that time calm but he was able to do it with the use of his language and how he flowed in a speech. Not a lot of people are able to do that but Winston Churchill was able to use his language and power to run an entire county and run it extremely well.