A Story of One Identical Twin

<p>This is a story of two identical twins born in 1961 who from the age of 16 lived very separate lives and followed very different paths; one joining the Army and living and working in England and Germany getting married having children and after 33 years leaving the Army to settle in Dorset and work as a civilian; working for a member of Parliament a council and a holiday park where the other worked as a bank teller airline steward and teacher before getting married and having a son and moving to America to follow the dream.</p><p><br></p><p>Despite this separation both twin boys are still very alike physically and emotionally with similar likes and dislikes and attitudes and behaviours. Still after 60 years like two peas in a pod and two sides of the same coin a testament to nature versus nurture where nature wins but where nurture plays a significant part in shaping their lives.</p><p><br></p><p>This is the story of Alan one of the pair one of the brace of braces who left home at 16 to join the Army. A career covering the period of the Cold War to Iraq a time of living and working in England and Germany deploying to pre-prepared defensive positions on the West/East German border awaiting the Soviet (Russian) advance the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany and the enlargement of NATO.</p><p><br></p><p>Very topical today with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Finland joining NATO. This was against a backdrop of much social change in the UK; the miners' strike power cuts Margaret Thatcher the Beatles Dr Who flower power and the Millennium. </p>