fiendishrabbit

What did you do in the years after the war? Was it directly back to school or something else?

The police treating outsiders and lower-status people as shit is a problem all across asia (but of course not limited to asia). Wether you're criminal or homeless (or if you just look like you're homeless) doesn't matter. The cops will take any excuse to beat the shit out of them.

I spent one afternoon several years ago talking with a vagrant from Japan (who basically made his money selling his book, postcards and stuff). His experience was that it was a lot better being a vagrant in Europe than asia, because while hostile cops could be rough if he was caught sleeping in the street at least they didn't start by kicking him (in the head, the stomach, the back. Didn't matter to them. To asian cops he was trash and a cancer to society, deserving of whatever injury they inflicted)

My grandfather (born 1912) hated lamb ever since the war since it was practically the only meat they got in the military (He was in the Swedish anti-aircraft corps) and it was boiled to a leather-like quality.

Having a child with a terminal illness and having hard time conceiving frequently goes hand in hand (which makes it doubly cruel). Because with many disorders it's rarely a live birth and instead either a non-viable egg or a miscarriage.

Had a neighbour that only had daughters (and that after a lot of trying). Didn't find out until her eldest daughter had a son with a terminal illness that she was a carrier of a gene where it will most of the time prevent a male fetus from surviving (and if they're born it's terminal within a few months).

Neither of them had a very good claim to the throne.

Harold Godwinson based his claim on the fact that his sister was married to Edward the Confessor. Williams claim was an undocumented promise and that his grand grandfathers sister had been the wife of Ethelred the Unready. Neither had a drop of Alfred the Greats blood in their veins.

The contender with the best claim to the throne had been Edgar Aetheling (Edgar the II). Grandson of Edmund Ironside (son of Ethelred the Unready). Edgar was not only of direct descent from previous kings, but the chosen heir of Edward the Confessor. Edgars problem was that he was 15 and just a boy/young man when Edward the Confessor died. Had Edward the Confessor just lived for another 5-7 years there wouldn't have been a succession crisis (or at least not one of these proportions).