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Like me Flanagan is the child of a Second World War veteran. Flanagan’s father suffered as a Japanese prisoner of war whilst my father experienced constant danger and injury as a submariner. Neither man would have expected to come through such experiences and indeed neither came out either physically or mentally unscarred. As such Flanagan and I are both children of the war, although we were also born decades after it had finished and our father’s lives had by then returned to the normality of wives and children and jobs.