History is a collection of accounts of earlier human events, some recorded accurately, that we need to study so as to avoid making similar mistakes. Altering history will not allow for future positive development of the human race. This is a little of mine.
My History
Always liked history from being
quite young,
learning
about old stuff and when you could carry a gun,
cowboys and
Indians, Japs and commandos,
plenty of global
conflict and film stars in death throes.
Then there
were the gangsters, men like Al Capone,
not to
forget Robin Hood and all the Knights - now gone,
life before
seemed to be an oft repeated battle,
the human
race appeared to thrive on its own death rattle.
Baby
boomers raised to the receding sounds of war,
films, toys
and games reflected the time before,
compounded
by the nuclear threat during early years,
resurrecting
a violent vista and life-threatening fears.
Then a
peaceful reaction in the sixty’s later hours,
festivals
of love, ban the bomb and lots of flower power,
even under
the arguments of a chilly war,
the
possibility of a peaceful future once more.
©David L
Atkinson May 2024
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