“The thing about growing up is that you get fewer scabs on your knees, but more internal injuries. Do you remember the day when that little yellowhammer flew straight at the window? You picked it up. It had a drop of blood on its beak. Identical color to ours. Just one drop, like a bright bead. And then there were all those brightly plumed kids who left school, flying cheerfully and didn’t get far. Ran smack into World War Two.
Little Tommy Naylor lying in Africa somewhere, blood on his beak.
Identical color to ours.”
– Peter Sallis as Norman Clegg,
   Last of the Summer Wine; Getting Sam Home, BBC