Do senior citizens ever buy something (could be food) because they remember it from long ago?

Standing in the pouring rain on June 2nd 1953 and watching the Coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth II. My favourite uncle was in the C.I.D. at Scotland Yard and was on plain-clothes duty that day so he took me with him. We left his home at Wamdsworth at 3.00 a.m.

And walked through the silent streets to catch the tube at Clapham Junction. The London streets were still full of bomb sites which were overgrown with London Pride and rosebay willow herb. When we got off the tube at Trafalgar Square the crush was unbelievable and I felt my ribs being crushed by the crowd.

Eventually my uncle positioned me in Pall Mall which was on the route back from Westminster Abbey. Throughout the day detectives in gabardine macs and trilby hats would appear with a drink or a cake for me. Everybody who passed received a cheer from road sweepers to newspaper sellers.

Suddenly a huge cheer arose and we thought the Queen was coming but it was a newspaper seller with a large paper banner which read.'All this and Everest conquered too!' Mount Everest had just been climbed for the first time by Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander. Eventually the procession arrived and I was allowed to stand in front of the policemen lining the route, right in the road. We had a large Empire then and soldiers from around the World rode or marched proudly by;Indian troops in turbans, Fijian warriors in pointed skirts, Scottish pipe bands with swinging kilts and bagpipes with 'bags of Swank'.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police got a huge cheer on their black horses, their scarlet tunics adding a bright splash of colour to the grey day. Finally the cheers rose to a crescendo and the Royal State Coach appeared, bearing our newly crowned young Queen. Flanked by outriders and pages in red and gold livery.As the carriage drew alongside me the Queen looked directly at me standing in the road and smiled.

Her beauty literally took my breath away. She was like a porcelain doll with the Imperial State Crown sparkling with a hundred jewels. I will never forget the pomp and pageantry of that rainy day and am so glad to have had the opportunity to be a part of it.

I did answer & it is funny that at first I couldn't think of anything & then I was able to give a great answer & now I don't remember what it was but I am thinking I had lots of great memories. Crab parties, swimming, simple times, being with my grandmother, putting puzzels together with my brother past our bedtime, playing games that cost nothing but a deck of cards. My brother would get a pot & we would just throw the cards in & keep track of who got their cards in.

Actually we would use a blue deck & red deck & in the end count our cards in the pot. We had a lot of simple things that were fun. We spend too much time now or worry, fear, blame and other negative thoughts.

They create more negative manifestations not the other way around.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.