What is beautiful reading this, in 2023, at my age, is the perspective for me. I actually grew up with people of that (1945) era. In the early 1970s most of the

What is beautiful reading this, in 2023, at my age, is the perspective for me. I actually grew up with people of that (1945) era. In the early 1970s most of the old folk in my village had seen at least one world war, some both, and as a kid I talked to them. The wild eyed wonder in the article, a mixture of hope and fear, was around then and is around today. The things that people - young or old - say, seem equally prophetic or naive. Plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose. The things they saw coming had not yet happened, and much they feared inevitable never did.