[pmulcahy11b]

Another thing is the long-term effects on the present generation of starvation (and in T2K) radiation, chemical exposure, biological contamination, etc. My mother's current dental problems, for example, probably had its genesis in her childhood in the camps in World War 2 -- and she's 72 now.

You know, she's lived almost her whole life with untreated Bipolar Disorder, the after-effects of World War 2, being basically homeless until she got back to Yugoslavia, losing a slot on the 1956 Olympic Team (she was a sprinter) to tuberculosis, being an anti-Tito partisan, two lousy husbands -- it's wonder she has any kind of mental stability at all. She has more guts and fortitude than I have, easily. Lots of people like that will be running the world after the Twilight War.