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When the 50th anniversary of World War II rolled around I started thinking about what it must have been like to live through it. I resolved to try to keep it in my consciousness from day to day-a resolution I by and large failed to keep.

When the 60th anniversary came around the internet was accessible even to the likes of me but this blog thing was more than I could comprehend and besides I had no time. Now the 70th anniversary is approaching and if I am ever going to do this the time is now. 70 years ago today Franklin Roosevelt was younger than I am now and he did not survive the war. On the other hand on VJ day Winston Churchill, who in 1937 was older than I am, had another 20 years to go. We’ll see. Over the next couple of weeks I will post a few more musings about this enterprise and see if I can get the hang of this blog thing.

I will begin the actual chronology on that auspicious day 7/7/07 – the 70th anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge “Incident”. More later.