Crossedchisles, I was out in the garden playing with a small model fighter plane made of very cheap stuff when my mother anounced the launch. I was six and the war was a bit confusing and remote but not the effect it had on our daily lives. I do remember the excitment of the day which was catching. We were going to get the Natzis and pay them back for the war. I did not understand at that point the full horror. I did learn and I have been a hawk since. And so to those with a supine political backbone I say "Not Me". david