Absolutely non LU this. Who else has been watching the BBC Cold War series? Me for one and it's with a mixed feeling and emotions. Younger members of this list may only now about it from history, and maybe not even then. For some of us it was reality
Just been watching Cold War, Hot Jets. On the one hand I can remember having Airfix models of some of those aircraft, followed on from Airfix models of second world war military aircraft and ships, and there was a certain beauty, and most certainly awe, of the V-bombers and the Lightning. On the other hand it was scary. This was the time of MAD (that's Mutually Assured Destruction for you youngsters, a term coined in the early 50's). I remember '62 and the Cuban Missile Crisis. I may have been a youngster still at school but it' remains vivid. Despite turbulence, terrorism and the rest in the world today this is probably the nearest we came to world annihilation. My first reaction to try and do something about it was to join the Civil Defence but it didn't take to long to realize how futile that was. Shades of Raymond Briggs and there was Peter Jenkin's The War Game. Commissioned by the BBC but they though it too scary to show till many years later. Saw it at the filmhouse top of Vicar Lane in Leeds. And then there was Dr. Stangelove (or how I learnt to stop worrying and love the war). So it became CND and Alderston marches. That was living in interesting times Guy _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
