Still, divergence or not, I still had some images to process. This one captures for me, deliberately, some of the sense of growing up in the 1970s in Britain with that background threat of world destruction combined with the knowledge that the world was about to be changed.
The world did change for us, but not in the way we expected.
The Soviet threat and bombings to do with Northern Ireland - just what we needed while growing up. As an aside I wonder how many Irish Americans who helped pay for weapons for Northern Ireland raged impotently when the World Trade Centre was attacked - perhaps the fear they felt then can help them understand what they were doing to innocent children like me in a distant country.
Pensive Trevor
11 years ago