Strong opening - and insightful: They owed their happiness to their short memory. It was a blessing to be able to forget pain and suffering. Ignorance is bliss, and so is amnesia! I love his 1941 Captain America and a 1984 Soundwave Transformer--cool details! If only his mother understood. Sad but all too believable story. And well done.
Thank you very much. Way too many people would rather sweep under the rug until the lump is so big they stumble, sometimes they even fall, but usually they make orhers fall.
It's been like that domestically and also applies to global politics.