Reminds me of one of the most extraordinary encounters of my life, something I have mentioned here but not recently.

I have never met very many big-time celebrities, but one I did meet was perhaps the biggest of all, the honest-to-God Winston Churchill himself. He came to our school at Lakenheath Air Base and spoke to my second grade class. This was in 1956, two years after he had left office for the final time. He shook my little hand and asked me what my dad did in the Air Force. Our teacher had told us he was the greatest man in the world and that we would be in detention until 1970 or so if we misbehaved.

I’m sure there were endless complaints about his presence there.///