I was a teen when The World at War appeared on my parents TV.... Watching naked bodies being bulldozed into mass graves kinda causes a young mind to wake up to the realities of man`s inhumanity to his fellow man far more so than could a bored teacher trying to make the content of history books seem real...?
My grandfather, a ships engineer had a picture of his WW1 destroyer on the wall at his eye level next to his seat by the fire, he and my father like so many others of their generations that I worked with in time, never spoke of the wars. While in the slow process of dying from Cancer my dad would scare my mother when he sat bolt upright in his bed in the middle of the night shouting in German at the top of his voice...
Hard done by.... are we sleep walking through life....?
