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As a "youngster" who has lived in better times I can remember some of the eighties when tensions were still there. I can still remember when it finally closed up with Gorbachev on the news and when the wall came down.
As for realising how close I was to never being born it came through the film 'Thirteen Hours' with Kevin Costner playing a part in it. I walked away from that film a little shattered. If it was a real representation of those few hours then we can can all thank Kennedy and a few men by his side for their patience and not wanting to jump on the bandwagon of the war makers. It made me realise how so few men can hold the fate of many.
Not a bad post xelasnave. I think that period of time from 1900 to 2000 is an important piece of history to study. If you start from World War One you can follow all the repercussions right through to how we've ended up now.
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