Generation whose wisdom was hard-won

From: Ken Hartford, Durham Mews, Butt Lane, Beverley.

THERE aren’t many of us left to speak for our age group. Most of my closest friends and many considerably older and more experienced in different spheres (most of whom I never knew personally, but shared their experience) are in one or other of the alternative places.

But we encountered, often at none-too-healthy distance, people from all parts of the world affected in one way or another directly by many we then considered to be enemies.

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Sadly, many of our sons and daughters have got themselves almost in the same position by failing to recognise their individual responsibilities towards “ordinary” people of other nations, cultures and styles of living as a human being.

An English society girl loved Adolf Hitler to such an extent she was prepared to die with him. That is love! Misguided you might say, but what is “love”? I am only 85-plus (like the Queen), but also, like her, I love the world, as does Prince Charles and those closely around him.

The word “love” demands a great deal of one, but it is possible to acquire (with patience) an understanding of what it actually entails.

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