daphnedil what an inspiring article, and thank you for sharing it on here. What this generation went through is beyond belief in many cases, my grandparents had to send my Father and his brothers away to relatives in the late 1930s as they just couldn't afford to feed them for a while ( miners strike I believe). One evening at a school governor's meeting, a fellow governor was telling us how her daughter, studying environmental science, had declared that the world was such a mess she wouldn't bring children into it. The headteacher, a wonderful man, quietly said that it is lucky his generation hadn't thought the same as they waited for nuclear oblivion in the 1960s. I shall share this article and wish we heard more from people like this gentleman, and less from those with a lot of noise and no content.