I too watched it last night and will probably watch most of the rest of the series.

Coming from a pacifistic background, it has a poignancy to me that may be quantitatively different from others'. War, by its very nature and rationale seems such an atavistic thing to me that I will never condone it. At the same time, I recognize that as long as rage exists, as long as families fight amongst themselves, as long as countries disagree, the possibility of war exists.

Why we can't resist and resolve disputes at the very top instead of sending people to fight each other physically and to the death in our name is incomprehensible to me.

I was not aware that the east coast of American was so late in instating 'blackouts'. I remember them very well on the west coast although I don't know in what month they began.

Being raised as I was, we didn't have a radio so local people came by and told us of when a blackout order was issued. The only thing that wasn't made clear to a 5-year-old kid was that the blackout didn't necessarily mean that the Japanese airplanes were overhead looking for a glimmer of light from our house. It terrified me if my parents were late in drawing the curtains or lighting the oil lamps.