The generation born in and after WW2 have watched that war on television and at the cinema for half a century. It is not my aim here to document the kaleidoscope of opinions and attitudes to the great wars of the last half century, suffice it to say that there seem to be as many changes, shifts in view, as there have been decades since 1945. One notable cultural theme that emerged in American society as it entered the twenty-first century, for example, was the glorification of the generation that had endured the Great Depression and heroically sacrificed to win World War II.  A virtual sanctification occurred in best-selling books, in TV programs and at the movies.  As I have watched this latest vintage of ‘war-movies,’ I wondered at just how my generation would be analysed and discussed half a century from now both inside and outside the Baha’i community.  The generation that came of age and fought in WW2 has been called, by one recent author, ?the greatest generation any society has ever produced.?  For me and my generation that came of age in the 1960s, the story remains to be written. Perhaps this autobiography is part of that writing. The social science literature, the novels, the media analysis on this period is burgeoning and I do not want to add appreciably to the mountain of material that already exists and so my focus is not on the history of my time. Some reference to that material is, though, essential to my story.