Loads of kids in my school had Dads who were away because of the Gulf War.
I was happy my dad wasn’t away but also I remember being aware that those dads were somewhere exciting or exotic.
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In "earliest political memories"
My earliest political memory is my parent's friends asking me to tell them the story my dad had taught me by hard as soon as I learned to talk "Sadam went mad, he went into Kuwait BOOM, BOOM, BOOM... America came in BOOM, BOOM, BOOM..."
In "earliest political memories"