Jim Heffernan column: Plenty of war, little peace in my lifetime

Jim Heffernan column: Plenty of war, little peace in my lifetime

I might as well own up to my advanced age. I was born in 1939. For those who count on their fingers (I sometimes do), you’d need eight persons counting all of their fingers and one with a hand tied behind her back. That’d be 85. Never thought it would happen to me. Or Ringo Starr, who just caught up to me. If you don’t know who Ringo Starr is, you’re either older than I (and that ain’t easy, friend) or way younger. A few contemporaries of mine w…