This chapter, a study of Aberdeen, considers how older people’s memories of familial sacrifice in the first half of the century were reconfigured in the 1970s amidst an increasingly strained welfare state. While recollections of the injustices of the limited healthcare in the early twentieth century could feed into popular justifications for the National Health Service, some people also used family stories about historical healthcare to make arguments for bringing back elements of the older system. In turn, memories of other sacrifices being unrewarded fed into the emerging political movement of Scottish nationalism.