Listen now | In reading the book, The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson [LINK amazon], I was plunged into a world I had never experienced myself. War. While less removed than most of my friends – my parents having lived through enough of the civil war in Lebanon to know it – I still had never experienced war myself. There is a lot about war that is foreign me. There is the pervasive threat to one’s own life; the fragility of life that is present; the reality that resources are limited. and often in shorter supply than required. None of these things have I encountered personally, but I lived in the shadow of it. So, it struck me when, out of 500 pages of determined survival by the people of Britain during the Blitz, Winston Churchill was quoted as say this:
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Listen now | In reading the book, The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson [LINK amazon], I was plunged into a world I had never experienced myself. War. While less removed than most of my friends – my parents having lived through enough of the civil war in Lebanon to know it – I still had never experienced war myself. There is a lot about war that is foreign me. There is the pervasive threat to one’s own life; the fragility of life that is present; the reality that resources are limited. and often in shorter supply than required. None of these things have I encountered personally, but I lived in the shadow of it. So, it struck me when, out of 500 pages of determined survival by the people of Britain during the Blitz, Winston Churchill was quoted as say this: