Actually, I thought the queueing for food at the social was
intentional, to get us into the war-time spirit. People in Europe had
to queue for hours, for everything, during the war.
 
My real reservation about the social - and I put this forward very
tentatively and IMHO, not wishing to offend anyone - is this. Was it
in the best of taste to use World War II as a theme for a social
event, especially just next to the Hiroshima anniversary? I couldn't
help wondering what any Japanese or German colleagues thought about
it. Maybe we in Europe, who actually got invaded, bombed, and fought
over, and who ended the war with whole cities reduced to rubble and
100,000s of refugees, just have different sensibilities about these
things? Or is it just me?
 
Fortunately, the main object of the exercise is for all to get
together for a good bash, and as far as I can judge this was
achieved, so it can't have been too bad.
 
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Martin Knapp
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