My Granddad is 104, he served in the RAF (met Granny when he was stationed in North Berwick ❤️). He's still constantly curious about meeting new people, trying new foods, having new conversations (hearing aids allowing). It's so patronising to the elderly to paint them all as frightened & feeble

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I think there is a shared (in the Facebook sense) memory among the large number of people who are now 70-ish, of bomb sites and fucked up relatives from both wars, that makes WW2 seem closer than it is. It's not healthy for them or for the rest of us.

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FFS... Surely if we'd learned anything from WWII, it's that fascism should be given no space whatsoever.

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Trick question: We are stuck in a reality in which everyone has come to a general consensus that World War II will always have happened roughly 40 years ago.

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and the thing is, most of those people still alive experienced Windrush basically at the point of their lives as they experienced the Second World War, in their teens or early childhood

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