Brian Hutchings
Star Player
It's quite a thing how the generation that came after the war are much more nostalgic about it than those who lived through it. Almost as if those who lived through the horrors didn't really talk about them and so their children have a weirdly positive bias when discussing it. This odd nostalgia has had a large impact on our country's psyche.
Yeah..I think that's about accurate ..and as for the odd/ weird element ? I guess it is ...as kids it was a fascination..some of those involved wanted to talk of it..I got very graphic and grim stuff about the El Alemain battle from my dad when I probed ...but others clammed up...my grandfather would say nothing of WW1...and the big sea battles he was in..he got very irritated by my constant questions.
In about 20 years from now, virtually no one will talk of it...it'll just be Glastonbury, Brexit, Anfield, or Old Trafford they will drone on about !