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In the summer of 1968, The Vietnam War was reaching its bloodiest phase. Young and healthy American men were being called up in their thousands - drafted into military service. When the final arithmetic was done after the war, it was determined that over 58,000 had died. Many more bore injuries both mental and physical that would affect them for the rest of their lives. But this was not an issue for Donald J.Trump. As a student at The Wharton Business School in The University of Pennsylvania, Trump had been able to defer the draft on four previous occasions but in the summer of 1968 he graduated and so the old excuse he had used was no longer valid. Instead, supported by his father, Trump claimed that he was suffering from bone spurs and should not be enlisted on medical grounds. It worked. But the truth of the matter is that he never suffered from bone spurs. It was all made-up. Perhaps it was fear or a self-preservation instinct but Trump was not prepared to fight for his country...

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  I met Nu in a cocktail bar on Frith Street (she had picked it as it was air conditioned) we then went along to Suvvlaki  the best Greek restaurant in soho where we ate Greek tapas to die for , sat at an open window facing the street and watched the world go by. I still felt as though was on holiday We walked into Chinatown where we ate obscene ice creams at bubble wrap waffle before the theatre Bliss Most of us of a certain age have grown up with the goodness that is Atticus Finch in  To Kill A Mocking Bird,  His  quote  “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” is one that follows a person through life, even though he was a fictitious lawyer in a non existent Southern town. To Kill A Mocking Bird was not without its faults and I wondered how these would be addressed to a modern audience, most of whom loved the book as a child and saw it th...