My father was talking. "As more come to believe, and their views are spread by the press, the radio, word of mouth, the fascination sets in, the hysteria, and more and more people want to believe. War is frightening but fascinating all the same. This is more so because it's unknown. Never happened before, and maybe won't this time." I pulled the covers up and wondered if i thought the end of the world was something exciting and had to admit that it was. But it was scary too, and that was exciting. Maybe i hadn't got too old yet, after all, to believe my father knew just about everything. I just wished he'd had more time to tell me more of it. . . .