The best childhood in the history of childhoods must have been Brooklyn in the 1950s.

It was a great time for America, a great time for the West because you don't know what

you got till it's gone and they just came out of World War II, which was really hell,

right?

Hell on Earth.

And there was this sort of rebirth.

That's why there was a baby boom because people were so happy to be alive.

They were jubilant in Britain during the Jubilee.

Of course, that was juxtaposed by finding out what happened in World War II and seeing

the pictures of the dead Jews and learning about the concentration camps.

I don't think we really knew the extent of Hitler's carnage until after the war.

I talked to Givo Shea about that.

She's the woman who did all the graphics for crafts.

You probably know her beautiful, realist sketch of the Statue of Liberty putting her face

in her hands.

That's almost everyone's avatar these days.

Okay, that's a slight exaggeration almost everyone.

Maybe a hundred people use that as an avatar.

She said that as a little kid, there was this strange combination in Britain of the joy

of being out of the war and the horror of seeing all these dead bodies, this carnage learning

what had just gone on.

And you see that in her art, right?

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