I’ve sometimes wondered about that, if all the five-year-olds in England were still playing at bombing Germany in the late ’70s or if other towns had moved on. The boys used to run around the playground with their arms wide, making bomb noises. Yeah, she said, we did that too, it is weird, do you think American kids had moved on to Vietnam? No, I said, from what I gather they mostly have real artillery and just shoot each other properly.
