HOMETOWN BATTLEFIELD

[Shadowcaster]

I think the song says it all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0X0bwMprQ

[Jean Loup]

I was lucky to have been about two years old when the war was over, we were living in Françe at the time. PSDT takes over from 10 years old, it seems & not before. It was General Philippe Leclerc & 2e Division Blindée that passed were we hided (la Vallée de Chevreuse) on the way to liberate Paris. At the begining of this video, la 2e Division Blindée is passing through Chevreuse town & some french people are saluting HEiL to allied troops, as a conditioned reflex from ocupation time:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXUvwj2ZlTI[/youtube]

The main Chevreuse town avenue, is now called General Leclerc because of this entrance into Paris, Chevreuse is part of the Porte de Versailles to Paris.

[Fozzer]

I was 6 years old in the City of London when the war broke out in 1940, and I can vividly remember the bombing and the destruction going on whilst hiding in our Anderson Air Raid Shelter in our back garden from all the shrapnel raining down from the skies.
After the "all clear", I used to wander around the streets collecting all the various bits of shrapnel, and saving it in a big bowl.
We had that bowl until my parents died in 1990, and it went missing, much to my disappointment, during the house clear-out.

I am very fortunate in having many very clear memories of my young years in the 1930's, 1940's, 1950's and beyond!

...but I sometimes have difficulty now, in remembering what I did ten minutes ago!... ...!

We have to be old enough to have lived through those times, to be able to fully realise what it was like at the time!

Paul.... ...!

[Jean Loup]

A funny feeking: although most memories from those times are happy, for some subconscious reason, I NEVER desired (nor ever wanted!) to go back to Europe: not even to Spain that sheltered us in postwar. Must be my contradictory nature

[Jean Loup]

...but I sometimes have difficulty now, in remembering what I did ten minutes ago!... ...!

Paul.... ...!

I wondered around Puerto Escondido during 4 years, with my inmediate memory not recording anything. The memory from my past was OK, like mechanical abilities or languages I speak or who am I. After a Skydive (with 4 years of no practice!! I froze & stayed on the plane at first try: then in the evening second chance, I did jump.. pushed by two instructors), I started remembering things again at landing.

I found out a few years later later, I was struck by lightning: like with electro-shocks, one does not remember it after being struck!! It causes a disorder on the hipotalamus section of the brain (wich means I have one!! in spite of my family disbelief..), that is were all information from our senses is collected, then it is distributed & stored in different parts of the cortex. I was not storing anything. My family says I did not recover, that I am just very very optimistical I can remember (without any warning: some happening now just triggers it) details & smells of when I was one year old, but unable to find the keys of my Combi now.