Thanks. I grew up watching films in which Germans were just grey clothed monsters to be mown down. It is ironic now, because in the kitchen at the moment, Ina, Merle(7),and Jonah(4) - my three most important people in the world - are having breakfast. They are all German. Oddly enough, my father, a very unsentimental man, quoted Brooke's most famous sonnet "The Soldier" on his deathbed last year. I am not a pacifist (a visit to a former concentration camp changed my mind about that), but we should never go to war lightly.