I hate to "enjoy" listening to these stories, but I always take the time to hear a speaker out when available from either war. I feel its not just critical to r

I hate to "enjoy" listening to these stories, but I always take the time to hear a speaker out when available from either war. I feel its not just critical to record but also replay these stories, to explain this historic period to our children and the overwhelming sense of scale that ideas, individuals and culture can play in our very modern world. My grandparents played out their roles in the second world war, yet even through death, they never talked about the war years or their contribution. In part, a strong British backbone but mostly, a sense that its gone and forgotten and it does "no body any good to dig up the war" (quoting maternal grandma).