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Interesting Times
Mar. 20th, 2003 09:00 amSo, there's a war going on. I'm thousands of miles away with 3 proposals to have finished by Friday and a fairly packed schedule. We have friends visiting all weekend and a really nice meal out booked at a restaurant we hear great things about. All in all, it makes it very hard to imagine that there is war happening somewhere.
I'm trying to remember what I was thinking during GW1. Firstly I was still at University, working my industrial year when it kicked off. Consequently I didn't have to travel as much as I do now. I heap scorn on US clients who don't want to fly at the moment, but I've 2 trips planned to Seattle between now and mid-May - should I go? At one level I realise that the likelyhood of a terrorist attack, let alone one on a Seattle bound aircraft is so low as to be unimportant, however, there is just that little voice inside your head that reminds you that any mode of travelling involving being 10,000m off the ground is pretty scary without added risks.
When I speak to my mother about WW2, she was 14 in 1945, she says similar things. That, at the end of the day, you got on with life and occasionally there were air raids and bombs but generally they didn't affect you too badly, even living most of it in London. I am told it was the same for many in the armed services. Certainly, my father in the Minesweeper service didn't see anything which could really be called "action" - I know some friend's parents who outside basic training never even picked up a weapon.
I suspect that this will all be over in Iraq pretty soon, its the peace that's going to be the killer.
I'm trying to remember what I was thinking during GW1. Firstly I was still at University, working my industrial year when it kicked off. Consequently I didn't have to travel as much as I do now. I heap scorn on US clients who don't want to fly at the moment, but I've 2 trips planned to Seattle between now and mid-May - should I go? At one level I realise that the likelyhood of a terrorist attack, let alone one on a Seattle bound aircraft is so low as to be unimportant, however, there is just that little voice inside your head that reminds you that any mode of travelling involving being 10,000m off the ground is pretty scary without added risks.
When I speak to my mother about WW2, she was 14 in 1945, she says similar things. That, at the end of the day, you got on with life and occasionally there were air raids and bombs but generally they didn't affect you too badly, even living most of it in London. I am told it was the same for many in the armed services. Certainly, my father in the Minesweeper service didn't see anything which could really be called "action" - I know some friend's parents who outside basic training never even picked up a weapon.
I suspect that this will all be over in Iraq pretty soon, its the peace that's going to be the killer.
