Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

